Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-12-20
Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 3617
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
LaTeX, 11 pages, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/19/14/304
At a fixed point in spacetime (say, x_0), gravitational phase space consists of the space of symmetric matrices F^{ab} [corresponding to the canonical momentum pi^{ab}(x_0) and of symmetric matrices {G_{ab}}[corresponding to the canonical metric g_{ab}(x_0), where 1 \leq a,b \leq n, and, crucially, the matrix {G_{ab}} is necessarily positive definite, i.e. \sum u^a G_{ab}u^b > 0 whenever \sum (u^a)^2 > 0. In an alternative quantization procedure known as Metrical Quantization, the first and most important ingredient is the specification of a suitable metric on classical phase space. Our choice of phase space metrics, guided by a recent study of Affine Quantum Gravity, leads to gravitational phase space geometries which possess constant scalar curvature and may be regarded as higher dimensional analogs of the Poincare plane, which applies when n=1. This result is important because phase spaces endowed with such symmetry lead naturally via the procedures of Metrical Quantization to acceptable Hilbert spaces of high dimension.
Klauder John R.
Watson Glenn
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