Background independent quantizations—the scalar field: I

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/9/001zbMATH Open1096.83032arXivgr-qc/0508091OpenAlexW3104902813WikidataQ58879829 ScholiaQ58879829MaRDI QIDQ5481009FDOQ5481009

Authors: Wojciech Kamiński, Jerzy Lewandowski, Marcin Bobieński 

Publication date: 7 August 2006

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

Abstract: We are concerned with the issue of quantization of a scalar field in a diffeomorphism invariant manner. We apply the method used in Loop Quantum Gravity. It relies on the specific choice of scalar field variables referred to as the polymer variables. The quantization, in our formulation, amounts to introducing the `quantum' polymer *-star algebra and looking for positive linear functionals, called states. The assumed in our paper homeomorphism invariance allows to determine a complete class of the states. Except one, all of them are new. In this letter we outline the main steps and conclusions, and present the results: the GNS representations, characterization of those states which lead to essentially self adjoint momentum operators (unbounded), identification of the equivalence classes of the representations as well as of the irreducible ones. The algebra and topology of the problem, the derivation, all the technical details and more are contained in the paper-part II.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508091

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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