Including topology change in loop quantum gravity with topspin network formalism with application to homogeneous and isotropic cosmology

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC0E1AMaRDI QIDQ5162933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mattia Villani

Publication date 8 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14188

zbMATH Keywords

differential geometry and topologygeometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We apply topspin network formalism to Loop Quantum Gravity in order to include in the theory the possibility of changes in the topology of spacetime. We apply this formalism to three toy models: with the first, we find that the topology can actually change due to the action of the Hamiltonian constraint and with the second we find that the final state might be a superposition of states with different topologies. In the third and last application, we consider an homogeneous and isotropic Universe, calculating the difference equation that describes the evolution of the system and which are the final topological states after the action of the Hamiltonian constraint. For this last case, we also calculate the transition amplitudes and probabilities from the initial to the final states.

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