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Convergent $\tilde{Y}$-Map for a new covariant Loop Quantum Gravity formulation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-10-08 v3

Abstract

The most important part of the new spin-foam loop quantum gravity formulation is the map YY: HSU(2)HSL(2,C)H^{SU(2)} \rightarrow H^{SL(2,C)}. It was only recently shown that the Y-Map is convergent in spite of the fact that the classical Peter-Weyl theorem is not applicable to it, as Lorentz group is not compact. In this paper we provide an alternative map Y~\tilde{Y}. The Y~\tilde{Y} map has an advantage of preserving the Lorentz covariance, which gets broken in the case of Y-Map. The image of a new map Y~\tilde{Y} contains the weighted infinite sum of SL(2,C)SL(2,C) matrix coefficients. The sum is convergent and its limit is the square integrable functions of SL(2,C)SL(2,C) with the measure L2(g,eY2/η(g)dudY)L^2(g, e^{-|Y|^2/\hbar}\eta(g) du \,dY ) according to the Holomorphic Huebschmann-Peter-Weyl theorem, which is applicable to the rational representations of the non-unitary groups, particularly non-unitary finite Lorenz representations. Since in LQG the unitary evolution is not mandatory as it does not follow from the Wheeler-DeWitt dynamics equation, the choice of the non-unitary representation is valid. As it was stated in the original LQG formulation: "there is no sense in which conventional unitarity is necessary in the theory".

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@article{arxiv.1407.3027,
  title  = {Convergent $\tilde{Y}$-Map for a new covariant Loop Quantum Gravity formulation},
  author = {Leonid Perlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3027},
  year   = {2015}
}
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