Irreducibility of the Ashtekar–Isham–Lewandowski representation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/13/010zbMATH Open1148.83008arXivgr-qc/0303074OpenAlexW3098859539MaRDI QIDQ5481133FDOQ5481133

Authors: Hanno Sahlmann, Thomas Thiemann 

Publication date: 7 August 2006

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

Abstract: Much of the work in loop quantum gravity and quantum geometry rests on a mathematically rigorous integration theory on spaces of distributional connections. Most notably, a diffeomorphism invariant representation of the algebra of basic observables of the theory, the Ashtekar-Isham-Lewandowski representation, has been constructed. Recently, several uniqueness results for this representation have been worked out. In the present article, we contribute to these efforts by showing that the AIL-representation is irreducible, provided it is viewed as the representation of a certain C*-algebra which is very similar to the Weyl algebra used in the canonical quantization of free quantum field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0303074

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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