Spin networks for noncompact groups

DOI10.1063/1.1521522MaRDI QIDQ4832945zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Etera R. Livine, Laurent Freidel

Publication date 14 December 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205268

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures on groups and semigroups, etc. (43A05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Spin networks are natural generalization of Wilson loops functionals. They have been extensively studied in the case where the gauge group is compact and it has been shown that they naturally form a basis of gauge invariant observables. Physically the restriction to compact gauge group is enough for the study of Yang-mills theories, however it is well known that non-compact groups naturally arise as internal gauge groups for Lorentzian gravity models. In this context a proper construction of gauge invariant observables is needed. The purpose of this work is to define the notion of spin network states for non-compact groups. We first built, by a careful gauge fixing procedure, a natural measure and a Hilbert space structure on the space of gauge invariant graph connection. Spin networks are then defined as generalized eigenvectors of a complete set of hermitic commuting operators. We show how the delicate issue of taking the quotient of a space by non compact groups can be address in term of algebraic geometry. We finally construct the full Hilbert space containing all spin network states. Having in mind application to gravity we illustrate our results for the groups SL(2,R), SL(2,C).

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