Consistency Check on Volume and Triad Operator Quantisation in Loop Quantum Gravity I

Details Consistency Check on Volume and Triad Operator Quantisation in Loop Quantum Gravity I Consistency Check on Volume and Triad Operator Quantisation in Loop Quantum Gravity I

2005-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0507036v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) 5667-5692

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

21 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/23/18/012

The volume operator plays a pivotal role for the quantum dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). It is essential in order to construct Triad operators that enter the Hamiltonian constraint and which become densely defined operators on the full Hilbert space even though in the classical theory the triad becomes singular when classical GR breaks down. The expression for the volume and triad operators derives from the quantisation of the fundamental electric flux operator of LQG by a complicated regularisation procedure. In fact, there are two inequivalent volume operators available in the literature and, moreover, both operators are unique only up to a finite, multiplicative constant which should be viewed as a regularisation ambiguity. Now on the one hand, classical volumes and triads can be expressed directly in terms of fluxes and this fact was used to construct the corresponding volume and triad operators. On the other hand, fluxes can be expressed in terms of triads and therefore one can also view the volume operator as fundamental and consider the flux operator as a derived operator. In this paper we examine whether the volume, triad and flux quantisations are consistent with each other. The results of this consistency analysis are rather surprising. Among other findings we show: 1. The regularisation constant can be uniquely fixed. 2. One of the volume operators can be ruled out as inconsistent. 3. Factor ordering ambiguities in the definition of triad operators are immaterial for the classical limit of the derived flux operator. The results of this paper show that within full LQG triad operators are consistently quantized. In this paper we present ideas and results of the consistency check. In a companion paper we supply detailed proofs.

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