Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2006-11-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
First part in two part series, 20 pages
Scientific paper
The Kodama State is unique in being an exact solution to all the ordinary constraints of canonical quantum gravity that also has a well defined semi-classical interpretation as a quantum version of a classical spacetime, namely (anti)de Sitter space. However, the state is riddled with difficulties which can be tracked down to the complexification of the phase space necessary in its construction. This suggests a generalization of the state to real values of the Immirzi parameter. In this first part of a two paper series we show that one can generalize the state to real variables and the result is surprising in that it appears to open up an infinite class of physical states. We show that these states closely parallel the ordinary momentum eigenstates of non-relativistic quantum mechanics with the Levi-Civita curvature playing the role of the momentum. With this identification, the states inherit many of the familiar properties of the momentum eigenstates including delta-function normalizability. In the companion paper we will discuss the physical interpretation, CPT properties, and an interesting connection between the inner product and the Macdowell-Mansouri formulation of general relativity.
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