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圈量子引力中的面积算符和提升自旋网络

Area Propagator and Boosted Spin Networks in Loop Quantum Gravity

Etera R. Livine

摘要:

圈量子引力中的量子几何态被定义为自旋网络,它是用SU(2)表象修饰的图形。自旋网络边带有半整数自旋,表示面积的基本量子,标准框架沿边施加面积匹配约束:它在其源顶点和目标顶点处带有相同的自旋。在粗粒化的上下文中,或者等价地将自旋网络定义为图的投影极限,沿着边引入曲率的激发似乎是很自然的。然后,一条边被类似于生活在量子场论中费曼图的链接上的传播子来处理:曲率激发产生了小回路--蝌蚪--它使它重新正规化。这放松了面积匹配条件,在边的两端有不同的自旋。我们表明,这相当于将通常的SU(2)holonomy沿着边缘与洛伦兹推进结合到生活在自旋网络边缘的SL(2,C)群元素中,强调Ashtekar-Barbero连接具有外部曲率自由度的事实。这最终导致我们引入圈量子引力中的面积波的新概念。

英文摘要:

Quantum states of geometry in loop quantum gravity are defined as spin networks, which are graph dressed with SU(2) representations. A spin network edge carries a half-integer spin, representing basic quanta of area, and the standard framework imposes an area matching constraint along the edge: it carries the same spin at its source and target vertices. In the context of coarse-graining, or equivalently of the definition of spin networks as projective limits of graphs, it appears natural to introduce excitations of curvature along the edges. An edge is then treated similarly to a propagator living on the links of Feynman diagrams in quantum field theory: curvature excitations create little loops -- tadpoles -- which renormalize it. This relaxes the area matching condition, with different spins at both ends of the edge. We show that this is equivalent to combining the usual SU(2) holonomy along the edge with a Lorentz boost into SL(2,C) group elements living on the spin network edges, underlining the fact that the Ashtekar-Barbero connection carries extrinsic curvature degrees of freedom. This finally leads us to introduce a new notion of area waves in loop quantum gravity.

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