On the support of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski measure
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show that the Ashtekar-Isham extension of the classical configuration space of Yang-Mills theories (i.e. the moduli space of connections) is (topologically and measure-theoretically) the projective limit of a family of finite dimensional spaces associated with arbitrary finite lattices. These results are then used to prove that the classical configuration space is contained in a zero measure subset of this extension with respect to the diffeomorphism invariant Ashtekar-Lewandowski measure. Much as in scalar field theory, this implies that states in the quantum theory associated with this measure can be realized as functions on the ``extended" configuration space.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9403112,
title = {On the support of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski measure},
author = {Donald Marolf and Jose M. Mourao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9403112},
year = {2009}
}
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22 pages, Tex, Preprint CGPG-94/3-1