arXiv 1302.71422013-02gr-qcmath-phmath.MP

Holonomy Operator and Quantization Ambiguities on Spinor Space

Etera R. Livine, Johannes Tambornino

备注：: 14 pages
发表信息：: Phys. Rev. D 87, 104014 (2013)
DOI：: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.104014

英文摘要：

We construct the holonomy-flux operator algebra in the recently developed spinor formulation of loop gravity. We show that, when restricting to SU(2)-gauge invariant operators, the familiar grasping and Wilson loop operators are written as composite operators built from the gauge-invariant `generalized ladder operators' recently introduced in the U(N) approach to intertwiners and spin networks. We comment on quantization ambiguities that appear in the definition of the holonomy operator and use these ambiguities as a toy model to test a class of quantization ambiguities which is present in the standard regularization and definition of the Hamiltonian constraint operator in loop quantum gravity.

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