Gravitons from a loop representation of linearised gravity

Details Gravitons from a loop representation of linearised gravity Gravitons from a loop representation of linearised gravity

2002-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0204067v1

Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 024017

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

23 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024017

Loop quantum gravity is based on a classical formulation of 3+1 gravity in terms of a real SU(2) connection. Linearization of this classical formulation about a flat background yields a description of linearised gravity in terms of a {\em real} $U(1)\times U(1)\times U(1)$ connection. A `loop' representation, in which holonomies of this connection are unitary operators, can be constructed. These holonomies are not well defined operators in the standard graviton Fock representation. We generalise our recent work on photons and U(1) holonomies to show that Fock space gravitons are associated with distributional states in the $U(1)\times U(1)\times U(1)$ loop representation. Our results may illuminate certain aspects of the much deeper (and as yet unkown,) relation between gravitons and states in nonperturbative loop quantum gravity. This work leans heavily on earlier seminal work by Ashtekar, Rovelli and Smolin (ARS) on the loop representation of linearised gravity using {\em complex} connections. In the last part of this work, we show that the loop representation based on the {\em real} $U(1)\times U(1)\times U(1)$ connection also provides a useful kinematic arena in which it is possible to express the ARS complex connection- based results in the mathematically precise language currently used in the field.

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