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We develop the reduced phase space quantization of causal diamonds in pure 2+1 dimensional gravity with a non-positive cosmological constant. The system is defined as the domain of dependence of a topological disc with fixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Rodrigo Andrade e Silva , Ted Jacobson

We develop the non-perturbative reduced phase space quantization of causal diamonds in (2+1)-dimensional gravity with a nonpositive cosmological constant. In this Part I we focus on the classical reduction process, and the description of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Rodrigo Andrade e Silva

Covariant phase space methods are applied to the analysis of a causal diamond in 2+1-dimensional pure Einstein gravity. It is found that the reduced phase space is parametrized by a family of charges with a dual geometrical interpretation:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-07 Pranav Pulakkat

The classification of the unitary irreducible representations of symmetry groups is a cornerstone of modern quantum physics, as it provides the fundamental building blocks for constructing the Hilbert spaces of theories admitting these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Giulio Neri , Ludovic Varrin

We achieve a group theoretical quantization of the flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model coupled to a massless scalar field adopting the improved dynamics of loop quantum cosmology. Deparemeterizing the system using the scalar field as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Etera R. Livine , Mercedes Martín-Benito

We construct the phase space of a spherically symmetric causal diamond in $(d+2)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Utilizing the covariant phase space formalism, we identify the relevant degrees of freedom that localize to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Mathew W. Bub , Temple He , Prahar Mitra , Yiwen Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

We consider the world-line quantisation of a system invariant under the symmetries of reciprocal relativity. Imposition of the first class constraint, the generator of local time reparametrisations, on physical states enforces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. D. Jarvis , S. O. Morgan

We formulate certain inequalities for the geometric quantities characterizing causal diamonds in curved and Minkowski spacetimes. These inequalities involve the red-shift factor which, as we show explicitly in the spherically symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Clement Berthiere , Gary Gibbons , Sergey N. Solodukhin

Causal diamonds are known to have thermal behavior that can be probed by finite-lifetime observers equipped with energy-scaled detectors. This thermality can be attributed to the time evolution of observers within the causal diamond,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 H. E. Camblong , A. Chakraborty , P. Lopez-Duque , C. Ordóñez

We study the covariant phase space of vacuum general relativity at the null boundary of causal diamonds. The past and future components of such a null boundary each have an infinite-dimensional symmetry algebra consisting of diffeomorphisms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-12 Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Kartik Prabhu

We apply a recent proposal for a distinguished ground state of a quantum field in a globally hyperbolic spacetime to the free massless scalar field in a causal diamond in two-dimensional Minkowski space. We investigate the two limits in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-25 Niayesh Afshordi , Michel Buck , Fay Dowker , David Rideout , Rafael D. Sorkin , Yasaman K. Yazdi

A symmetry based quantization method of reparametrization invariant systems is described; it will work for all systems that possess complete sets of perennials whose Lie algebras close and which generate a sufficiently large symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Hajicek

We present here the canonical treatment of spherically symmetric (quantum) gravity coupled to spherically symmetric Maxwell theory with or without a cosmological constant. The quantization is based on the reduced phase space which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-20 T. Thiemann

We present explicit formulas for deformation quantization on the co-adjoint orbits of the real diamond Lie group. From this we obtain quantum half-plans, quantum hyperbolic cylinders, quantum hyperbolic paraboloids via Fedosov deformation…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nguyen Viet Hai

The problem of quantizing a particle on a 2-sphere has been treated by numerous approaches, including Isham's global method based on unitary representations of a symplectic symmetry group that acts transitively on the phase space. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Rodrigo Andrade e Silva , Ted Jacobson

Several papers from the mid to late 1990s suggest that Einstein's equations should be thought of as the hydrodynamic equations of a special class of quantum systems. A classical solution defines subsystems by dividing space-time up into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 T. Banks

We investigate the canonical quantization of gravity coupled to pointlike matter in 2+1 dimensions. Starting from the usual point particle action in the first order formalism, we introduce auxiliary variables which make the action locally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Kabat , Miguel Ortiz

We discuss the quantization and holographic aspects of a class of conical spaces in 2+1 dimensional pure AdS gravity. These appear as topological solitons in the Chern-Simons formulation of the theory and are closely related to the recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Joris Raeymaekers

We study the phase space structure and the quantization of a pointlike particle in 2+1 dimensional gravity. By adding boundary terms to the first order Einstein Hilbert action, and removing all redundant gauge degrees of freedom, we arrive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Juergen Matschull , Max Welling

In this letter, we stress that the simplest cosmological model consisting in a massless scalar field minimally coupled to homogeneous and isotropic gravity has an in-built $\SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ symmetry. Protecting this symmetry naturally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-18 Jibril Ben Achour , Etera R. Livine
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