Einstein-Hilbert Path Integrals and Chern-Simons Integrals

arXiv1701.04397MaRDI QIDQ6282000FDOQ6282000

Adrian P. C. Lim

Publication date: 10 January 2017

Abstract: A hyperlink is a finite set of non-intersecting simple closed curves in $mathbbRimesmathbb{R}^3$. We compute the Wilson Loop observable using a path integral with an Einstein-Hilbert action. Using axial-gauge fixing, we can write this path integral as the limit of a sequence of Chern-Simons integrals, studied earlier in our previous work on the Chern-Simons path integrals in $mathbb{R}^3$. We will show that the Wilson Loop observable can be computed from a link diagram of a hyperlink, projected on a plane. Only crossings in the diagram will contribute to the path integral. Furthermore, we will show that it is invariant under an equivalence relation defined on the set of hyperlinks.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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