First-order formulation of teleparallel gravity and dual loop gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB7BB7MaRDI QIDQ5161971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maïté Dupuis, Florian Girelli, Abdulmajid Osumanu, Wolfgang Wieland

Publication date 1 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02801

zbMATH Keywords

dual loop quantum gravityloop quantum gravityteleparallel gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other connections (53B15) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: There are at least two ways to encode gravity into geometry: Einstein's general theory of relativity (GR) for the metric tensor, and teleparallel gravity, where torsion as opposed to curvature encodes the dynamics of the gravitational degrees of freedom. The main purpose of the paper is to explore the relation between loop gravity and teleparallel gravity. We argue that these two formulations of gravity are related to two different discretizations of the Einstein--Cartan action, which were studied recently in the literature. The first discretization leads to the emph{{loop gravity}} kinematical phase space where the zero torsion condition is enforced {first} and the other is the emph{{dual loop gravity}} kinematical phase space where curvature is imposed to vanish {first}. Our argument is based on the observation that the GR first-order Einstein--Cartan action can also be seen as a first-order action for teleparallel gravity up to a boundary term. The results of our paper suggest that the emph{dual loop gravity} framework is a natural discretization of teleparallel gravity, whereas emph{loop gravity} is naturally related to the standard GR metric description.

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