Quasilocal energy for spin-net gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/6/311MaRDI QIDQ4954056zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Seth Major

Publication date 20 June 2001

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9906052

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationgravitationquantum quasi-local energy operatorspin-net gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: The Hamiltonian of a gravitational system defined in a region with boundary is quantized. The classical Hamiltonian, and starting point for the regularization, is required by functional differentiablity of the Hamiltonian constraint. The boundary term is the quasilocal energy of the system and becomes the ADM mass in asymptopia. The quantization is carried out within the framework of canonical quantization using spin networks. The result is a gauge invariant, well-defined operator on the Hilbert space induced from the state space on the whole spatial manifold. The spectrum is computed. An alternate form of the operator, with the correct naive classical limit, but requiring a restriction on the Hilbert space, is also defined. Comparison with earlier work and several consequences are briefly explored.

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