Gravitation in terms of observables

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAE449MaRDI QIDQ5218323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

Publication date 2 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02661

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac observablesloopsMandelstam's quantization of gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: In the 1960's, Mandelstam proposed a new approach to gauge theories and gravity based on loops. The program for gauge theories was completed for Yang--Mills theories by Gambini and Trias in the 1980's. Gauge theories could be understood as representations of certain group: the group of loops. The same formalism could not be implemented at that time for the gravitational case. Here we would like to propose an extension to the case of gravity. The resulting theory is described in terms of loops and open paths and can provide the underpinning for a new quantum representation for gravity distinct from the one used in loop quantum gravity or string theory. In it, space-time points are emergent entities that would only have quasi-classical status. The formulation may be given entirely in terms of Dirac observables that form a complete set of gauge invariant functions that completely define the Riemannian geometry of the spacetime. At the quantum level this formulation will lead to a reduced phase space quantization free of any constraints.

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