Gravity as an SU (1, 1) gauge theory in four dimensions

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA7348MaRDI QIDQ5283564zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hongguang Liu, K. Noui

Publication date 24 July 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06793

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityloop quantum gravityHamiltonian formalismspin network\(SU(1,1)\) gauge fixing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We start with the Hamiltonian formulation of the first order action of pure gravity with a full $mathfraksl(2,mathbbC)$ internal gauge symmetry. We make a partial gauge-fixing which reduces $mathfraksl(2,mathbbC)$ to its sub-algebra $mathfraksu(1,1)$. This case corresponds to a splitting of the space-time $calM=SigmaimesmathbbR$ where $Sigma$ inherits an arbitrary Lorentzian metric of signature $(-,+,+)$. Then, we find a parametrization of the phase space in terms of an $mathfraksu(1,1)$ commutative connection and its associated conjugate electric field. Following the techniques of Loop Quantum Gravity, we start the quantization of the theory and we consider the kinematical Hilbert space on a given fixed graph $Gamma$ whose edges are colored with unitary representations of $mathfraksu(1,1)$. We compute the spectrum of area operators acting of the kinematical Hilbert space: we show that space-like areas have discrete spectra, in agreement with usual $mathfraksu(2)$ Loop Quantum Gravity, whereas time-like areas have continuous spectra. We conclude on the possibility to make use of this formulation of gravity to construct a holographic description of black holes in the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity.

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