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We treat space and time as bona fide quantum degrees of freedom on an equal footing in Hilbert space. Motivated by considerations in quantum gravity, we focus on a paradigm dealing with linear, first-order Hamiltonian and momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Ashmeet Singh

We present a clear, step-by-step method for counting degrees of freedom and identifying constraints in general field theories. This approach, grounded in the works of Einstein, Hilbert, Cartan, Kuranishi, and, more recently, Seiler, is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Lavinia Heisenberg

Canonical quantization of spherically symmetric space-times is carried out, using real-valued densitized triads and extrinsic curvature components, with specific factor ordering choices ensuring in an anomaly free quantum constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Suddhasattwa Brahma

A new approach is suggested which allows to describe phenomenologically arbitrary topologies of the Universe. It consists in a generalizaton of third quantization. This quantization is carried out for the case of asymptotic closeness to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Kirillov

A new framework of loop quantization that assimilates conformal and scale invariance is constructed and is found to be applicable to a large class of physically important theories of gravity and gravity-matter systems. They include general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-02 Charles H. -T. Wang , Daniel P. F. Rodrigues

Quantization of the free Maxwell field in Minkowski space is carried out using a loop representation and shown to be equivalent to the standard Fock quantization. Because it is based on coherent state methods, this framework may be useful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Abhay Ashtekar , Carlo Rovelli

We consider a set of physical degrees of freedom coupled to a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, which may be taken as modeling a fuzzy space or as the lowest Landau level of a Landau-Hall problem. These may be viewed as matter fields on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-18 V. P. Nair

The problem of finding the quantum theory of the gravitational field, and thus understanding what is quantum spacetime, is still open. One of the most active of the current approaches is loop quantum gravity. Loop quantum gravity is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Carlo Rovelli

Polymomentum canonical theories, which are manifestly covariant multi-parameter generalizations of the Hamiltonian formalism to field theory, are considered as a possible basis of quantization. We arrive at a multi-parameter hypercomplex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 I. V. Kanatchikov

The polymer quantization of cosmological backgrounds provides an alternative path to the original Wheeler-de Witt (WdW) quantum cosmology, based on a different representation the commutation relations of the canonical variables. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-11 Jibril Ben Achour , Etera R. Livine

In this paper is considered a generalized quantization principle for the gravitational field in canonical quantum gravity, especially with respect to quantum geometrodynamics. This assumption can be interpreted as a transfer from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-07 Martin Kober

We show that the quantization ambiguities of loop quantum cosmology, when considered in wider generality, can be used to produce discretionary dynamical behavior. There is an infinite dimensional space of ambiguities which parallels the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 Lautaro Amadei , Alejandro Perez , Salvatore Ribisi

We shall here perform the canonical analysis of field equations of ABI model in order to determine constraint equations. We shall show that one can use algebraic constraints in the covariant framework to fix $k^i$ as a function of the frame…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 L. Fatibene , A. Orizzonte

The Wightman function i.e. vacuum two-point function, for a massless free scalar field in Fock quantization is inversely proportional to the invariant distance squared between the corresponding spacetime points. Naturally it diverges when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-04 Golam Mortuza Hossain , Gopal Sardar

Classical mechanics has a natural mathematical setting in symplectic geometry and it may be asked if the same is true for quantum mechanics. More precisely, is it possible to capture certain quantum idiosyncrasies within the symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-06 Joseph Geraci

We consider a matrix space based on the spin degree of freedom, describing both a Hilbert state space, and its corresponding symmetry operators. Under the requirement that the Lorentz symmetry be kept, at given dimension, scalar symmetries,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-17 J. Besprosvany , R. Romero

We present a covariant quantum formalism for scalar particles based on an enlarged Hilbert space. The particular physical theory can be introduced through a timeless Wheeler DeWitt-like equation, whose projection onto four-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. L. Diaz , J. M. Matera , R. Rossignoli

First, we describe the construction of a new type of gravity-matter models based on the formalism of non-Riemannian space-time volume forms - alternative generally covariant integration measure densities (volume elements) defined in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-29 Eduardo Guendelman , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

The non-factorizing nature of the Hilbert space in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) due to gauge invariance requires a generalized definition of entanglement entropy. This work employs the framework of von Neumann algebras to investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Muxin Han

This article sheds new light on the problem of cosmological reduction in Loop Quantum Gravity. We critically analyze Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity -- an attempt to extract the cosmological sector of the full theory. We reconsider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Jakub Bilski , Antonino Marciano