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In this series of papers, we present a set of methods to revive quantum geometrodynamics which encountered numerous mathematical and conceptual challenges in its original form promoted by Wheeler and De Witt. In this paper, we introduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 Thorsten Lang , Susanne Schander

We present a new quantization scheme for $2D$ gravity coupled to an $SU(2)$ principal chiral field and a dilaton; this model represents a slightly simplified version of stationary axisymmetric quantum gravity. The analysis makes use of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Korotkin , H. Nicolai

Over the last two years, the canonical approach to quantum gravity based on connections and triads has been put on a firm mathematical footing through the development and application of a new functional calculus on the space of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Abhay Ashtekar

In [1] we initiated an approach towards quantizing the Hamiltonian constraint in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) by requiring that it generates an anomaly-free representation of constraint algebra off-shell. We investigated this issue in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-13 Adam Henderson , Alok Laddha , casey Tomlin

In this paper, we extend a previously presented Grover-based heuristic to tackle general combinatorial optimization problems with linear constraints. We further describe the introduced method as a framework that enables performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Sören Wilkening , Timo Ziegler , Maximilian Hess

We present a geometric formulation of quantum mechanics based on the symplectic structure of the projective Hilbert space. Building upon the standard K\"ahler framework, we introduce an extension in which the symplectic structure is allowed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Hoshang Heydari

The Green's function formalism in Condensed Matter Physics is reviewed within the equation of motion approach. Composite operators and their Green's functions naturally appear as building blocks of generalized perturbative approaches and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ferdinando Mancini , Adolfo Avella

We present a systematic expansion of all constraint equations in canonical quantum gravity up to the order of the inverse Planck mass squared. It is demonstrated that this method generates the conventional Feynman diagrammatic technique…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. O. Barvinsky , C. Kiefer

We show that under certain technical assumptions, including the existence of a constant mean curvature (CMC) slice and strict positivity of the scalar field, general relativity conformally coupled to a scalar field can be quantised on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-25 Norbert Bodendorfer , Alexander Stottmeister , Andreas Thurn

We provide a complete quantization for the Gowdy model with local rotational symmetry in vacuum. We start with a redefinition of the classical constraint algebra such that the Hamiltonian constraint has a vanishing Poisson bracket with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-21 Javier Olmedo , Daniel Martín de Blas , Tomasz Pawłowski

We study the dynamics of a quantum system having Hilbert space of finite dimension $d_{\mathrm{H}}$. Instabilities are possible provided that the master equation governing the system's dynamics contain nonlinear terms. Here we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Eyal Buks , Dvir Schwartz

We analyze the quantization of dynamical systems that do not involve any background notion of space and time. We give a set of conditions for the introduction of an intrinsic time in quantum mechanics. We show that these conditions are a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-19 Ricardo Doldan , Pablo Mora , Rodolfo Gambini

We construct the smeared diffeomorphism constraint operator at finite triangulation from the basic holonomy- flux operators of Loop Quantum Gravity, evaluate its continuum limit on the Lewandowski- Marolf habitat and show that the action of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Alok Laddha , Madhavan Varadarajan

We study a class of theories in which space-time is treated classically, while interacting with quantum fields. These circumvent various no-go theorems and the pathologies of semi-classical gravity, by being linear in the density matrix and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-15 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

The Hamiltonian formulation of scalar-tensor theories of gravity is derived from their Lagrangian formulation by Hamiltonian analysis. The Hamiltonian formalism marks off two sectors of the theories by the coupling parameter $\omega(\phi)$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiangdong Zhang , Yongge Ma

We introduce a way to express compact quantum electrodynamics with dynamical matter on two- and three-dimensional spatial lattices in a gauge redundancy-free manner while preserving translational invariance. By transforming to a rotating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Julian Bender , Erez Zohar

This article presents a simplified version of the author's previous work. We first construct a causal growth process (CGP). We then form path Hilbert spaces using paths of varying lengths in the CGP. A sequence of positive operators on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 Stan Gudder

In the Hamiltonian approach on a single spatial plaquette, we construct a quantum (lattice) gauge theory which incorporates the classical singularities. The reduced phase space is a stratified K\"ahler space, and we make explicit the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-30 J. Huebschmann , G. Rudolph , M. Schmidt

A systematic Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein-Cartan system, based on the Hilbert-Palatini action with the Barbero-Immirzi and cosmological constants, is performed using the traditional ADM decomposition and without fixing the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Erick I. Duque

An one-parameter regularization freedom of the Hamiltonian constraint for loop quantum gravity is analyzed. The corresponding spatially flat, homogenous and isotropic model includes the two well-known models of loop quantum cosmology as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-12 Xiangdong Zhang , Gaoping Long , Yongge Ma