LOOP CONSTRAINTS: A HABITAT AND THEIR ALGEBRA

DOI10.1142/S0218271898000231zbMATH Open0936.83022arXivgr-qc/9710016OpenAlexW3105735178WikidataQ58879874 ScholiaQ58879874MaRDI QIDQ4936982FDOQ4936982

Authors: Jerzy Lewandowski, Donald Marolf 

Publication date: 2 February 2000

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work introduces a new space $T{\text{'}}_{\ast }$ of `vertex-smooth' states for use in the loop approach to quantum gravity. Such states provide a natural domain for Euclidean Hamiltonian constraint operators of the type introduced by Thiemann (and using certain ideas of Rovelli and Smolin). In particular, such operators map $T{\text{'}}_{\ast }$ into itself, and so are actual operators in this space. Their commutator can be computed on $T{\text{'}}_{\ast }$ and compared with the classical hypersurface deformation algebra. Although the classical Poisson bracket of Hamiltonian constraints yields an inverse metric times an infinitesimal diffeomorphism generator, and despite the fact that the diffeomorphism generator has a well-defined non-trivial action on $T{\text{'}}_{\ast }$, the commutator of quantum constraints vanishes identically for a large class of proposals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9710016

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zbMATH Keywords

hypersurface deformation algebraEuclidean quantum gravityloop-based approach to quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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