Combinatorial solutions to the Hamiltonian constraint in (2+1)-dimensional Ashtekar gravity

Details Combinatorial solutions to the Hamiltonian constraint in (2+1)-dimensional Ashtekar gravity Combinatorial solutions to the Hamiltonian constraint in (2+1)-dimensional Ashtekar gravity

1995-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506043v2

Nucl.Phys. B459 (1996) 355-392

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

41 pages Latex (2 figures available as a postscript file)

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(95)00557-9

Dirac's quantization of the (2+1)-dimensional analog of Ashtekar's approach to quantum gravity is investigated. After providing a diffeomorphism-invariant regularization of the Hamiltonian constraint, we find a set of solutions to this Hamiltonian constraint which is a generalization of the solution discovered by Jacobson and Smolin. These solutions are given by particular linear combinations of the spin network states. While the classical counterparts of these solutions have degenerate metric, due to a \lq quantum effect' the area operator has nonvanishing action on these states. We also discuss how to extend our results to (3+1)-dimensions.

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