The kinematical frame of Loop Quantum Gravity I

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Authors Andreas Döring, Hans F. de Groote

Publication date 26 December 2001

Abstract: In loop quantum gravity in the connection representation, the quantum configuration space $$, which is a compact space, is much larger than the classical configuration space $mathcalA/\mathrm{\%}mathcalG$ of connections modulo gauge transformations. One finds that $$ is homeomorphic to the space $Hom(\mathrm{\%}mathcal{L}_{ast},G))/Ad$. We give a new, natural proof of this result, suggesting the extension of the hoop group $mathcal{L}_{ast}$ to a larger, compact group $mathcalM(mathcal{L}_{ast})$ that contains $\mathrm{\%}mathcal{L}_{ast}$ as a dense subset. This construction is based on almost periodic functions. We introduce the Hilbert algebra $L_2(mathcalM(\mathrm{\%}mathcal{L}_{ast}))$ of $mathcalM(mathcal{L}_{ast})$ with respect to the Haar measure $xi$ on $mathcalM(mathcal{L}_{ast})$. The measure $\mathrm{\%}xi$ is shown to be invariant under 3-diffeomorphisms. This is the first step in a proof that $L_2(mathcalM(mathcal{L}_{ast}))$ is the appropriate Hilbert space for loop quantum gravity in the loop representation. In a subsequent paper, we will reinforce this claim by defining an extended loop transform and its inverse.

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