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The picture of the Bianchi I model via gauge fixing in Loop Quantum Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

The implications of the SU(2) gauge fixing associated with the choice of invariant triads in Loop Quantum Cosmology are discussed for a Bianchi I model. In particular, via the analysis of Dirac brackets, it is outlined how the holonomy-flux algebra coincides with the one of Loop Quantum Gravity if paths are parallel to fiducial vectors only. This way the quantization procedure for the Bianchi I model is performed by applying the techniques developed in Loop Quantum Gravity but restricting the admissible paths. Furthermore, the local character retained by the reduced variables provides a relic diffeomorphisms constraint, whose imposition implies homogeneity on a quantum level. The resulting picture for the fundamental spatial manifold is that of a cubical knot with attached SU(2) irreducible representations. The discretization of geometric operators is outlined and a new perspective for the super-Hamiltonian regularization in Loop Quantum Cosmology is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.1201.2588,
  title  = {The picture of the Bianchi I model via gauge fixing in Loop Quantum Gravity},
  author = {Francesco Cianfrani and Andrea Marchini and Giovanni Montani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2588},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages