Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-01-31
Phys.Rept. 286 (1997) 271-348
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
78 pages Latex, four figures included as eps-files.(References added, some minor changes made in subsections 1.4, 3.2 and 7.3.
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-1573(96)00051-8
In this paper we will make a survey of solutions to the Wheeler-Dewitt equation which have been found up to now in Ashtekar's formulation for canonical quantum gravity. Roughly speaking they are classified into two categories, namely, Wilson-loop solutions and topological solutions. While the program of finding solutions which are composed of Wilson loops is still in its infancy, it is expected to be developed in the near future. Topological solutions are the only solutions at present which we can give their interpretation in terms of spacetime geometry. While the analysis made here is formal in the sense that we do not deal with rigorously regularized constraint equations, these topological solutions are expected to exist even in the fully regularized theory and they are considered to yield vacuum states of quantum gravity. We also make an attempt to review the spin network states as intuitively as possible. In particular, the explicit formulae for two kinds of measures on the space of spin network states are given.
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