Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-12-1996
Abstract
We study several aspects of the canonical quantization of supergravity in terms of the Ashtekar variables. We cast the theory in terms of a GSU (2) connection and we introduce a loop representation. The solution space is similar to the loop representation of ordinary gravity, the main difference being the form of the Mandelstam identities. Physical states are in general given by knot invariants that are compatible with the GSU/(2) Mandelstam identities. There is an explicit solution to all the quantum constraint equations connected with the Chern-Simons form, which coincides exactly with the Dubrovnik version of the Kauffman polynomial. This provides for the first time the possibility of finding explicit analytic expressions for the coefficients of that knot polynomial.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Nuclear Physics B
First Page
615
Last Page
631
Recommended Citation
Armand-Ugon, D., Gambini, R., Obregón, O., & Pullin, J. (1996). Towards a loop representation for quantum canonical supergravity. Nuclear Physics B, 460 (3), 615-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(95)00582-X