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Observations on interfacing loop quantum gravity with cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-12-16 v1

Abstract

A simple idea of relating the LQG and LQC degrees of freedom is discussed in context of toroidal Bianchi I model. The idea is an expansion of the construction originally introduced by Ashtekar and Wilson-Ewing and relies on explicit averaging of certain sub-class of spin-networks over the subgroup of the diffeomorphisms remaining after the gauge fixing used in homogeneous LQC. It is based on the set of clearly defined principles, thus is a convenient tool to control the emergence and behavior of the cosmological degrees of freedom in studies of dynamics in canonical LQG. Relating the proposed LQG-LQC interface with some results on black hole entropy suggests a modification to the area gap value currently used in LQC.

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@article{arxiv.1411.0323,
  title  = {Observations on interfacing loop quantum gravity with cosmology},
  author = {Tomasz Pawłowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0323},
  year   = {2015}
}

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