The Barbero connection and its relation to the histories connection formalism without gauge fixing

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/12/010zbMATH Open1148.83315arXivgr-qc/0602021OpenAlexW2025919035WikidataQ126163430 ScholiaQ126163430MaRDI QIDQ5481108FDOQ5481108

Authors: Ntina Savvidou 

Publication date: 7 August 2006

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

Abstract: We present a histories version of the connection formalism of general relativity. Such an approach introduces a spacetime description--a characteristic feature of the histories approach--and we discuss the extent to which the usual loop variables are compatible with a spacetime description. In particular, we discuss the definability of the Barbero connection without any gauge fixing. Although it is not the pullback of a spacetime connection onto the three-surface and it does not have a natural spacetime interpretation, this does not mean that the Barbero connection is not suitable variable for quantisation; it appears naturally in the formalism even in absence of gauge fixing. It may be employed therefore, to define loop variables similar to those employed in loop quantum gravity. However, the loop algebra would have to be augmented by the introduction of additional variables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602021

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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