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The complete spectrum of the area from recoupling theory in loop quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We compute the complete spectrum of the area operator in the loop representation of quantum gravity, using recoupling theory. This result extends previous derivations, which did not include the ``degenerate'' sector, and agrees with the recently computed spectrum of the connection-representation area operator.

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9608043,
  title  = {The complete spectrum of the area from recoupling theory in loop quantum gravity},
  author = {Simonetta Frittelli and Luis Lehner and Carlo Rovelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9608043},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

typos corrected in eqn.(21). Latex with IOP and epsf styles, 1 figure (eps postscript file), 12 pages. To appear in Class. Quantum Grav

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