Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-06-14
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages
Scientific paper
This is the first paper in a series in which an attempt is made to formulate a perturbation theory around the the Chern-Simons state of quantum gravity discovered by Kodama. It is based on an extension of the theory of 't Hooft Deser and Jackew describing point particles in 3D gravity to four spacetime dimensions. General covariance now requires the basic excitations to be extended in one spatial dimension rather than pointlike. As a consequence the symmetry of the Kodama state, which is the (anti)deSitter symmetry, is realized 'holographically' on a timelike boundary, the generators of this symmetry being related to quasilocal energy-momenta. As GR induces a Chern-Simons theory on the boundary, the deSitter symmetry of the vacuum must be q-deformed with the deformation parameter related to the cosmological constant. It is proposed to introduce excitations around this vacuum by putting punctures on the boundary to each of which is associate a vector in some representation of deSitter group projected to the boundary. By equations of motion those punctures must be connected by continuous lines of fluxes of an SO(3,1) gauge field. It is also argued that quasilocal masses and spins of these excitations must satisfy a relation of Regge type, which may point on a possible relation between non-perturbative quantum gravity and string theory.
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