The accidental flatness constraint does not mean a wrong classical limit

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC655EMaRDI QIDQ5077301zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. Engle, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date 18 May 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03166

zbMATH Keywords

classical limitpath integralspinfoams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flatness and tameness of topological manifolds (57N45) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We shed some light on the reason why the accidental flatness constraint appears in certain limits of the amplitudes of covariant loop quantum gravity. We show why this constraint is harmless, by displaying how analogous accidental constraints appear in transition amplitudes of simple systems, when certain limits are considered.

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