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Consistency check on the fundamental and alternative flux operators in loop quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-11-06 v2

Abstract

There are different constructions of the flux of triad in loop quantum gravity, namely the fundamental and alternative flux operators. In parallel to the consistency check on the two versions of operator by the algebraic calculus in the literature, we check their consistency by the graphical calculus. Our calculation based on the original Brink graphical method is obviously simpler than the algebraic calculation. It turns out that our consistency check fixes the regulating factor κreg\kappa_{\rm reg} of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski volume operator as 12\frac12, which corrects its previous value in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1908.10600,
  title  = {Consistency check on the fundamental and alternative flux operators in loop quantum gravity},
  author = {Jinsong Yang and Yongge Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.10600},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures; minor updates

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