Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-18-2005
Abstract
We apply the "consistent discretization" approach to general relativity leaving the spatial slices continuous. The resulting theory is free of the diffeomorphism and Hamiltonian constraints, but one can impose the diffeomorphism constraint to reduce its space of solutions and the constraint is preserved exactly under the discrete evolution. One ends up with a theory that has as physical space what is usually considered the kinematical space of loop quantum geometry, given by diffeomorphism invariant spin networks endowed with appropriate rigorously defined diffeomorphism invariant measures and inner products. The dynamics can be implemented as a unitary transformation and the problem of time explicitly solved or at least reduced to a numerical problem. We exhibit the technique explicitly in (2 + 1)-dimensional gravity. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physical Review Letters
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Recommended Citation
Gambini, R., & Pullin, J. (2005). Consistent discretization and loop quantum geometry. Physical Review Letters, 94 (10), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101302