Spacetime structures from critical values in two-dimensional quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/7/306MaRDI QIDQ4954132zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José Luis Jaramillo, Víctor Aldaya

Publication date 11 April 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9907071

zbMATH Keywords

gravity operators two-dimensional (2D) quantum gravity Virasoro group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: A model for 2D Quantum Gravity is constructed out of the Virasoro group. To this end the quantization of the abstract Virasoro group is revisited. For the critical values of the conformal anomaly c, some quantum operators (SL(2,R) generators) lose their dynamical content (they are no longer conjugated operators). The notion of space-time itself in 2D gravity then arises as associated with this kinematical SL(2,R) symmetry. An ensemble of different copies of AdS do co-exist in this model with different weights, depending on their curvature (which is proportional to hbar^{2}) and they are connected by gravity operators. This model suggests that, in general, quantum diffemorphisms should not be imposed as constraints to the theory, except for the classical limit.

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