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Dynamically implementing the $\overline{\mu}$-scheme in cosmological and spherically symmetric models in an extended phase space model

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-04-04 v1

Abstract

We consider an extended phase space formulation for cosmological and spherically symmetric models in which the choice of a given μ\overline{\mu}-scheme can be implemented dynamically. These models are constructed in the context of the relational formalism by using a canonical transformation on the extended phase space which provides a Kucha\v{r} decomposition of the extended phase space. The resulting model can be understood as a gauge-unfixed model of a given μ\overline{\mu}-scheme. We use this formalism to investigate the restrictions to the allowed μ\overline{\mu}-scheme from this perspective and discuss the differences in the cosmological and spherically symmetric case. This method can be useful, for example, to obtain a μ\overline{\mu}-scheme in a top-down derivation from full LQG to symmetry reduced effective models, where for some models only the μ0\mu_0-scheme has been obtained so far.

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@article{arxiv.2303.18111,
  title  = {Dynamically implementing the $\overline{\mu}$-scheme in cosmological and spherically symmetric models in an extended phase space model},
  author = {Kristina Giesel and Hongguang Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.18111},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

16 pages + appendix, accepted by universe, contribution to the special issue "Loop Quantum Gravity: A Themed Issue in Honor of Prof. Abhay Ashtekar"