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In the path integral formulation of the reduced phase space Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), we propose a new approach to allow the spatial cubic lattice (graph) to change dynamically in the physical time evolution. The equations of motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Muxin Han , Hongguang Liu

We present a new cosmological model derived from Loop Quantum Gravity. The formulation is based on a projection of the kinematical Hilbert space of the full theory down to a subspace representing the proper arena for an inhomogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Emanuele Alesci , Francesco Cianfrani

In recent years, Loop Quantum Gravity has emerged as a solid candidate for a nonperturbative quantum theory of General Relativity. It is a background independent theory based on a description of the gravitational field in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-16 Guillermo A. Mena Marugan

Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is an attempt to describe the quantum gravity regime. Introducing a non-zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in this context has been a withstanding problem. Other approaches, such as Chern-Simons gravity, suggest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-24 Maite Dupuis , Florian Girelli

In this work a loop quantum corrected model is obtained for spherically symmetric space-times in the vacuum. This effective model is derived by the use of the path integral method, previously employed in several models of Loop Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Hugo A. Morales

The goal of this work is to elaborate on new geometric methods of constructing exact and parametric quasiperiodic solutions for anamorphic cosmology models in modified gravity theories, MGTs, and general relativity, GR. There exist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-24 Marcelo M. Amaral , Raymond Aschheim , Laurenţiu Bubuianu , Klee Irwin , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Daniel Woolridge

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

Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), mainly due to Bojowald, is not the cosmological sector of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). Rather, LQC consists of a truncation of the phase space of classical General Relativity to spatially homogeneous situations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Johannes Brunnemann , Thomas Thiemann

In the last 20 years, loop quantum gravity, a background independent approach to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics, has been widely investigated. The aim of loop quantum gravity is to construct a mathematically rigorous,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-25 Muxin Han

The flat, homogeneous, and isotropic universe with a massless scalar field is a paradigmatic model in Loop Quantum Cosmology. In spite of the prominent role that the model has played in the development of this branch of physics, there still…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-23 Mercedes Martin-Benito , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Javier Olmedo

In contrast to previous work in the field, we construct the Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) of the flat isotropic model with a massless scalar field in the absence of higher order curvature corrections to the gravitational part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-30 Madhavan Varadarajan

We present a separable version of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) based on an inductive system of cubic lattices. We construct semi-classical states for which the LQG operators -- the flux, the area and the volume operators -- have the right…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-24 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup

In the last decade, progress on quantization of homogeneous cosmological spacetimes using techniques of loop quantum gravity has led to insights on various fundamental questions and has opened new avenues to explore Planck scale physics.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-06 Ivan Agullo , Parampreet Singh

Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is a non-perturbative attempt at quantization of a classical phase space description of gravity in terms of $SU(2)$ connections and electric fields. As emphasized recently [1], on this phase space, classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Madhavan Varadarajan

First, we review the $C^\ast$-algebraic foundations of loop quantization, in particular, the construction of quantum configuration spaces and the implementation of symmetries. Then, we apply these results to loop quantum gravity, focusing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Christian Fleischhack

Based on a recent purely geometric construction of observables for the spatial diffeomorphism constraint, we propose two distinct quantum reductions to spherical symmetry within full 3+1-dimensional loop quantum gravity. The construction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Norbert Bodendorfer , Jerzy Lewandowski , Jedrzej Świeżewski

In the framework of loop quantum cosmology anomaly free quantizations of the Hamiltonian constraint for Bianchi class A, locally rotationally symmetric and isotropic models are given. Basic ideas of the construction in (non-symmetric) loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Bojowald

A simple idea of relating the LQG and LQC degrees of freedom is discussed in context of toroidal Bianchi I model. The idea is an expansion of the construction originally introduced by Ashtekar and Wilson-Ewing and relies on explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Tomasz Pawłowski

This paper is one of a series of papers on coherent spaces and their applications, defined in the recent book 'Coherent Quantum Mechanics' by the first author. The paper studies coherent quantization -- the way operators in the quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Arnold Neumaier , Arash Ghaani Farashahi

The use of non-regular representations of the Heisenberg-Weyl commutation relations has proved to be useful for studying conceptual and technical issues in quantum gravity. Of particular relevance is the study of Loop Quantum Cosmology…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-11 Alejandro Corichi , Tatjana Vukasinac , Jose A. Zapata