Loop Quantum Gravity Vacuum with Nondegenerate Geometry

In loop quantum gravity, states of the gravitational field turn out to be excitations over a vacuum state that is sharply peaked on a degenerate spatial geometry. While this vacuum is singled out as fundamental due to its invariance properties, it is also important to consider states that describe n...

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Datum:2012
Hauptverfasser: Koslowski, T., Sahlmann, H.
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2012
Schriftenreihe:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Online Zugang:http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/148420
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Zitieren:Loop Quantum Gravity Vacuum with Nondegenerate Geometry / T. Koslowski, H. Sahlmann // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2012. — Т. 8. — Бібліогр.: 31 назв. — англ.

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Zusammenfassung:In loop quantum gravity, states of the gravitational field turn out to be excitations over a vacuum state that is sharply peaked on a degenerate spatial geometry. While this vacuum is singled out as fundamental due to its invariance properties, it is also important to consider states that describe non-degenerate geometries. Such states have features of Bose condensate ground states. We discuss their construction for the Lie algebra as well as the Weyl algebra setting, and point out possible applications in effective field theory, Loop Quantum Cosmology, as well as further generalizations.