Properties of the Rovelli-Smolin-DePietri volume operator in the spaces of monochromatic intertwiners

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC1E70zbMATH Open1482.83051arXiv2104.11010OpenAlexW3194431697MaRDI QIDQ5164079FDOQ5164079

Authors: Marcin Kisielowski 

Publication date: 9 November 2021

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

Abstract: We study some properties of the Rovelli-Smolin-DePietri volume operator in loop quantum gravity, which significantly simplify the diagonalization problem and shed some light on the pattern of degeneracy of the eigenstates. The operator is defined by its action in the spaces of tensor products $mathcal{H}_{j_1}otimesldotsotimesmathcal{H}_{j_N}$ of the irreducible SU(2) representation spaces $mathcal{H}_{j_i},i=1,ldots,N$, labelled with spins $j_{i}infrac12mathbbN$. We restrict to the spaces of SU(2) invariant tensors (intertwiners) with all spins equal $j_1=ldots=j_N=j$. We call them spin $j$ monochromatic intertwiners. Such spaces are important in the study of SU(2) gauge invariant states that are isotropic and can be applied to extract the cosmological sector of the theory. In the case of spin $1/2$ we solve the eigenvalue problem completely: we show that the volume operator is proportional to identity and calculate the proportionality factor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11010

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zbMATH Keywords

Young diagramloop quantum gravityvolume operatormonochromatic intertwiners

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Spaces of operators; tensor products; approximation properties (46B28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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