2+1 gravity with positive cosmological constant in LQG: a proposal for the physical state
Abstract
In this paper, I investigate the possible quantization, in the context of LQG, of three dimensional gravity in the case of positive cosmological constant {\Lambda} and try to make contact with alternative quantization approaches already existing in the literature. Due to the appearance of an anomaly in the constraints algebra, previously studied as a first step of the analysis, alternative techniques developed for the quantization of systems with constraints algebras not associated with a structure Lie group need to be adopted. Therefore, I introduce an ansatz for a physical state which gives some transition amplitudes in agreement with what one would expect from the Turaev-Viro model. Moreover, in order to check that this state implements the right dynamicss, I show that it annihilates the master constraint for the theory up to the first order in {\Lambda}.
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@article{arxiv.1101.5585,
title = {2+1 gravity with positive cosmological constant in LQG: a proposal for the physical state},
author = {Daniele Pranzetti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5585},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
17 pages; minor changes, presentation improved. Version accepted for publication in CQG