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Representations of the holonomy algebras of gravity and nonAbelian gauge theories
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Holonomy algebras arise naturally in the classical description of Yang-Mills fields and gravity, and it has been suggested, at a heuristic level, that they may also play an important role in a nonperturbative treatment of the quantum theory. The aim of this paper is to provide a mathematical basis for this proposal. The quantum holonomy algebra is constructed, and, in the case of real connections, given the structure of a certain C*-algebra. A proper representation theory is then provided using the Gel'fand spectral theory. A corollary of these general results is a precise formulation of the 'loop transform' proposed by Rovelli and Smolin (1990). Several explicit representations of the holonomy algebra are constructed. The general theory developed here implies that the domain space of quantum states can always be taken to be the space of maximal ideals of the C*-algebra. The structure of this space is investigated and it is shown how observables labelled by 'strips' arise naturally.
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“Over the past three years, this approach has been put on a firm mathematical footing through the development of a new functional calculus on the space of gauge equivalent connections [4-11].”
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“This calculus does not use any background fields (such as a metric) and is therefore well-suited to a fully nonperturbative treatment.”
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“We develop the framework for the Higgs field, in the diffeomorphism invariant context, by pushing the analogy between a usual path holonomy and a 'point holonomy' constructed from a Higgs Field (see below) and can therefore translate step by step the framework [4, 5, 6, 7, 8] developed for gauge fields to arrive at the Higgs field Hilbert space.”
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“In contrast with the usual Minkowskian situation, however, A , G and A / G are all compact spaces in their natural (Gel'fand) topologies [4-8].”
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“Furthermore, the resulting quantum algebra is precisely the one used in [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].”
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“The Hilbert space in which we will define the operators is constructed from the gauge invariant cylindrical functions on A [6,7,12,19,20].”
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“In [3] such theories were canonically quantized and the representation of the canonical commutation relations that was chosen is generated by the Abelian C ⋆ algebra W of Wilson loop observables via the GNS construction [4].”
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“If one does not work with half densities then it turns out that a) The gravitational connection becomes complex valued. Thus, the gravitational gauge group would become become SL (2 , C) which is non-compact and would make the arsenal of techniques developed in [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 3] inapplicable.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ashtekar, A., & Isham, C. J.
- Affiliations
- Syracuse University (US)
- ORCID
- Ashtekar, A
- Venue
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 1992-06-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1433-1467
- ISSN
- 0264-9381 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6382
- OpenAlex
- W2144505517
- Cited by
- 310
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- 24
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- FWCI
- 8.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Classical and Quantum Gravity (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Syracuse University
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Mathematical Physics › Advanced Operator Algebra Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Keywords
- holonomy algebras, C*-algebras, representation theory, non-perturbative quantum gravity, Yang-Mills theory, Yang-Mills fields, maximal ideals, quantum states, loop quantum gravity
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