Towards a loop representation for quantum canonical supergravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00582-XMaRDI QIDQ1906832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel Armand-Ugon, Rodolfo Gambini, Octavio Obregón, Jorge Pullin

Publication date 23 January 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508036

zbMATH Keywords

Ashtekar variablessolution spacephysical statesChern Simons formDubrovnik Kauffman polynomial versionGSU(2) Mandelstam identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We study several aspects of the canonical quantization of supergravity in terms of the Asthekar variables. We cast the theory in terms of a $GSU(2)$ connection and we introduce a loop representation. The solution space is similar to the loop representation of ordinary gravity, the main difference being the form of the Mandelstam identities. Physical states are in general given by knot invariants that are compatible with the $GSU(2)$ Mandelstam identities. There is an explicit solution to all the quantum constraint equations connected with the Chern-Simons form, which coincides exactly with the Dubrovnik version of the Kauffman Polynomial. This provides for the first time the possibility of finding explicit analytic expressions for the coefficients of that knot polynomial.

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