Quasi-Local Energy in Loop Quantum Gravity

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2008-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3554v3

Phys.Rev.D80:084027,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

29 pages; latest version in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.80.084027

Although there is no known meaningful notion of the energy density of the gravitational field in general relativity, a few notions of quasi-local energy of gravity associated to extended but finite domains have been proposed. In this paper, the notions of quasi-local energy are studied in the framework of loop quantum gravity, in order to see whether these notions can be carried out at quantum level. Two basic quasi-local geometric quantities are quantized, which lead to well-defined operators in the kinematical Hilbert space of loop quantum gravity. We then use them as basic building blocks to construct different versions of quasi-local energy operators. The operators corresponding to Brown-York energy, Liu-Yau energy, Hawking energy, and Geroch energy are obtained respectively. The virtue of the Geroch energy operator is beneficial for us to derive a rather general entropy-area relation and thus a holographic principle from loop quantum gravity.

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