A new look at Lorentz-Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity

Details A new look at Lorentz-Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity A new look at Lorentz-Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity

2011-05-20

arxiv.org/abs/1105.4194v2

Phys.Rev.D84:044002,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

28 pages. Revised version taking into account referee's comments

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.044002

In this work, we study the classical and quantum properties of the unique commutative Lorentz-covariant connection for loop quantum gravity. This connection has been found after solving the second-class constraints inherited from the canonical analysis of the Holst action without the time-gauge. We show that it has the property of lying in the conjugacy class of a pure $\su(2)$ connection, a result which enables one to construct the kinematical Hilbert space of the Lorentz-covariant theory in terms of the usual $\SU(2)$ spin-network states. Furthermore, we show that there is a unique Lorentz-covariant electric field, up to trivial and natural equivalence relations. The Lorentz-covariant electric field transforms under the adjoint action of the Lorentz group, and the associated Casimir operators are shown to be proportional to the area density. This gives a very interesting algebraic interpretation of the area. Finally, we show that the action of the surface operator on the Lorentz-covariant holonomies reproduces exactly the usual discrete $\SU(2)$ spectrum of time-gauge loop quantum gravity. In other words, the use of the time-gauge does not introduce anomalies in the quantum theory.

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