Background independent quantizations: the scalar field I

Details Background independent quantizations: the scalar field I Background independent quantizations: the scalar field I

2005-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508091v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) 2761-2770

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

13 pages, minor corrections were made in the revised version

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/23/9/001

We are concerned with the issue of quantization of a scalar field in a diffeomorphism invariant manner. We apply the method used in Loop Quantum Gravity. It relies on the specific choice of scalar field variables referred to as the polymer variables. The quantization, in our formulation, amounts to introducing the `quantum' polymer *-star algebra and looking for positive linear functionals, called states. The assumed in our paper homeomorphism invariance allows to determine a complete class of the states. Except one, all of them are new. In this letter we outline the main steps and conclusions, and present the results: the GNS representations, characterization of those states which lead to essentially self adjoint momentum operators (unbounded), identification of the equivalence classes of the representations as well as of the irreducible ones. The algebra and topology of the problem, the derivation, all the technical details and more are contained in the paper-part II.

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