Loop quantum gravity boundary dynamics and SL(2,C) gauge theory

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC03F8zbMATH Open1481.83045arXiv2101.07565OpenAlexW3164544042MaRDI QIDQ5163552FDOQ5163552

Authors: Etera R. Livine 

Publication date: 4 November 2021

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

Abstract: In the context of the quest for a holographic formulation of quantum gravity, we investigate the basic boundary theory structure for loop quantum gravity. In 3+1 space-time dimensions, the boundary theory lives on the 2+1-dimensional time-like boundary and is supposed to describe the time evolution of the edge modes living on the 2-dimensional boundary of space, i.e. the space-time corner. Focusing on "electric" excitations -- quanta of area -- living on the corner, we formulate their dynamics in terms of classical spinor variables and we show that the coupling constants of a polynomial Hamiltonian can be understood as the components of a background boundary 2+1-metric. This leads to a deeper conjecture of a correspondence between boundary Hamiltonian and boundary metric states. We further show that one can reformulate the quanta of area data in terms of a SL(2,C) connection, transporting the spinors on the boundary surface and whose SU(2) component would define "magnetic" excitations (tangential Ashtekar-Barbero connection), thereby opening the door to writing the loop quantum gravity boundary dynamics as a 2+1-dimensional SL(2,C) gauge theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07565

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryspin networksloop quantum gravityboundary theoryedge modesboundary dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35)

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