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具有非简并真空的量子几何:一个玩具模型

Quantum geometry with a nondegenerate vacuum: a toy model

Sandipan Sengupta

摘要:

受最近Koslowski-Sahlmann提出的具有非简并真空度规的圈量子引力(LQG)的运动学表示的启发,我们构造了Minkowski柱上参数化无质量标量场理论的聚合物量子化.微分同胚协变运动学是基于除了离散嵌入和物质标签之外,还带有与光滑嵌入几何相对应的连续标签的状态。用群平均法得到的物理状态空间是不可分的。在这个理论中,一个物理状态可以被解释为一个量子时空,它是由离散的条带组成的,并且叠加在经典连续统之上。我们发现共形群在量子理论中是破缺的,它由所有的庞加莱平移组成。这些特征与没有平滑嵌入的情况相比是显著不同的。最后,我们分析的长度运营商的频谱被证明是从连续和离散嵌入几何的贡献之和,在完美的类比与非退化真空几何LQG中的几何运营商的频谱。

英文摘要:

Motivated by a recent proposal (by Koslowski-Sahlmann) of a kinematical representation in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) with a nondegenerate vacuum metric, we construct a polymer quantization of the parametrised massless scalar field theory on a Minkowskian cylinder. The dif- feomorphism covariant kinematics is based on states which carry a continuous label corresponding to smooth embedding geometries, in addition to the discrete embedding and matter labels. The physical state space, obtained through group averaging procedure, is nonseparable. A physical state in this theory can be interpreted as a quantum spacetime, which is composed of discrete strips and supercedes the classical continuum. We find that the conformal group is broken in the quantum theory, and consists of all Poincare translations. These features are remarkably different compared to the case without a smooth embedding. Finally, we analyse the length operator whose spectrum is shown to be a sum of contributions from the continuous and discrete embedding geometries, being in perfect analogy with the spectra of geometrical operators in LQG with a nondegenerate vacuum geometry.

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