Spectral Analysis of the Volume Operator in Loop Quantum Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We describe preliminary results of a detailed numerical analysis of the volume operator as formulated by Ashtekar and Lewandowski. Due to a simplified explicit expression for its matrix elements, it is possible for the first time to treat generic vertices of valence greater than four. It is found that the vertex geometry characterizes the volume spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0612147,
title = {Spectral Analysis of the Volume Operator in Loop Quantum Gravity},
author = {J. Brunnemann and D. Rideout},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0612147},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure. Talk given by D. Rideout at the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity at the Freie U. Berlin, July 23 - 29, 2006