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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

A loop quantization of the diagonal class A Bianchi models starting from the complex-valued self-dual connection variables is presented in this paper. The basic operators in the quantum theory correspond to areas and generalized holonomies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-13 Edward Wilson-Ewing

In this article we have investigated some of the theoretical aspects of the solutions of quantum mechanical equations in Rindler space. We have developed the formalism for exact analytical solutions for Schr$\ddot{\rm{o}}$dinger equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-28 Soma Mitra , Sanchari De , Somenath Chakrabarty

In the present paper we develop a framework in which questions of quantum ergodicity for operators acting on sections of hermitian vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds can be studied. We are particularly interested in the case of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Bunke , Martin Olbrich

A non-Hermitian operator with a real spectrum and a complete set of eigenvectors may serve as the Hamiltonian operator for a unitary quantum system provided that one makes an appropriate choice for the defining inner product of the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

We apply the nonstandard loop quantum cosmology method to quantize a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with a free scalar field and the cosmological constant $\Lambda>0$. Modification of the Hamiltonian in terms of loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Jakub Mielczarek , Wlodzimierz Piechocki

Introducing a new method, we demonstrate how the action of reduced operators can be derived without resorting to a recoupling theory and how they exactly reproduce the results obtained in the standard approach of Quantum Reduced Loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Jakub Bilski , Antonino Marciano

We investigate $\rho$-orthogonality and its local symmetry in the space of bounded linear operators. A characterization of Hilbert space operators with symmetric numerical range is established in terms of $\rho$-orthogonality. Further, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Souvik Ghosh , Kallol Paul , Debmalya Sain

We present in the article the formulation of a version of Lorentz covariant quantum mechanics based on a group theoretical construction from a Heisenberg-Weyl symmetry with position and momentum operators transforming as Minkowski…

General Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Suzana Bedić , Otto C. W. Kong , Hock King Ting

The aim of this letter is to indicate the differences between the Rovelli-Smolin quantum volume operator and other quantum volume operators existing in the literature. The formulas for the operators are written in a unifying notation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Jerzy Lewandowski

Although the physical Hamiltonian operator can be constructed in the deparameterized model of loop quantum gravity coupled to a scalar field, its property is still unknown. This open issue is attacked in this paper by considering an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-17 Cong Zhang , Jerzy Lewandowski , Yongge Ma

We construct in this article a new realization of quantum geometry, which is obtained by quantizing the recently-introduced flux formulation of loop quantum gravity. In this framework, the vacuum is peaked on flat connections, and states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-18 Benjamin Bahr , Bianca Dittrich , Marc Geiller

A representation theorem for non-semibounded Hermitian quadratic forms in terms of a (non-semibounded) self-adjoint operator is proven. The main assumptions are closability of the Hermitian quadratic form, the direct integral structure of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Alberto Ibort , José G. Llavona , Fernando Lledó , Juan Manuel Pérez-Pardo

In this second paper on loop quantization of Gowdy model, we introduce the kinematical Hilbert space on which appropriate holonomies and fluxes are well represented. The quantization of the volume operator and the Gauss constraint is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kinjal Banerjee , Ghanashyam Date

We offer a new, physically transparent argument for the existence of the critical, universal maximum matter density in loop quantum cosmology for the case of a flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmology with scalar matter. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-23 David A. Craig

A finite dimensional system with a quadratic Hamiltonian constraint is Dirac quantized in holomorphic, antiholomorphic and mixed representations. A unique inner product is found by imposing Hermitian conjugacy relations on an operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Jorma Louko

Aim of this paper is trying to show the possible significance, and usefulness, of various non-selfadjoint operators for suitable Observables in non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics, and in quantum electrodynamics: More…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Erasmo Recami , Michel Zamboni-Rached , Ignazio Licata

This is the second paper in the series to introduce a graphical method to loop quantum gravity. We employ the graphical method as a powerful tool to calculate the actions of the Euclidean Hamiltonian constraint operator and the so-called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-25 Jinsong Yang , Yongge Ma

The purpose of the paper is to study the foundations of the main axioms of Quantum Mechanics. From a general study of the mathematical properties of the models used in Physics to represent systems, we prove that the states of a system can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Jean Claude Dutailly

We introduce a quantum volume operator $K$ in three--dimensional Quantum Gravity by taking into account a symmetrical coupling scheme of three SU(2) angular momenta. The spectrum of $K$ is discrete and defines a complete set of eigenvectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Carbone , M. Carfora , A. Marzuoli