Gravitational Wilson Loop and Large Scale Curvature

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2007-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/0706.2342v2

Phys.Rev.D76:084008,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

22 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.084008

In a quantum theory of gravity the gravitational Wilson loop, defined as a suitable quantum average of a parallel transport operator around a large near-planar loop, provides important information about the large-scale curvature properties of the geometry. Here we shows that such properties can be systematically computed in the strong coupling limit of lattice regularized quantum gravity, by performing a local average over rotations, using an assumed near-uniform measure in group space. We then relate the resulting quantum averages to an expected semi-classical form valid for macroscopic observers, which leads to an identification of the gravitational correlation length appearing in the Wilson loop with an observed large-scale curvature. Our results suggest that strongly coupled gravity leads to a positively curved (De Sitter-like) quantum ground state, implying a positive effective cosmological constant at large distances.

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