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We discretize the Hamiltonian scalar constraint of three-dimensional Riemannian gravity on a graph of the loop quantum gravity phase space. This Hamiltonian has a clear interpretation in terms of discrete geometries: it computes the…

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Recently the Master Constraint Programme (MCP) for Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) was launched which replaces the infinite number of Hamiltonian constraints by a single Master constraint. The MCP is designed to overcome the complications…

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We investigate the spectral properties of the volume operator in quantum gravity in the framework of a previously introduced lattice discretization. The presence of a well-defined scalar product in this approach permits us to make definite…

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We generalize the colored Alexander invariant of knots to an invariant of graphs, and we construct a face model for this invariant by using the corresponding 6j-symbol, which comes from the non-integral representations of the quantum group…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Francesco Costantino , Jun Murakami

In this paper, we are going to discuss the gauge reduction with respect to the simplicity constraint in both classical and quantum theory of all dimensional loop quantum gravity. With the gauge reduction with respect to edge-simplicity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Gaoping Long , Xiangdong Zhang

The aim of this article is to provide a rigorous-but-simple steps to prove the hermiticity of the volume operator of Rovelli-Smolin and Ashtekar-Lewandowski using the angular momentum approach, as well as pointing out some subleties which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-30 S. Ariwahjoedi , I. Husin , I. Sebastian , F. P. Zen

We introduce semiclassical methods into the study of the volume spectrum in loop gravity. The classical system behind a 4-valent spinnetwork node is a Euclidean tetrahedron. We investigate the tetrahedral volume dynamics on phase space and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-19 Eugenio Bianchi , Hal M. Haggard

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

In this paper we calculated the spectral dimension of loop quantum gravity (LQG) using the scaling property of the area operator spectrum on spin-network states and using the scaling property of the volume and length operators on Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-19 Leonardo Modesto

We develop the first steps towards an analysis of geometry on the quantum spacetime proposed in [1]. The homogeneous elements of the universal differential algebra are naturally identified with operators living in tensor powers of Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Dorothea Bahns , Sergio Doplicher , Klaus Fredenhagen , Gherardo Piacitelli

We analyze the issue of anomaly-free representations of the constraint algebra in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) in the context of a diffeomorphism-invariant gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions. We construct a Hamiltonian constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Adam Henderson , Alok Laddha , Casey Tomlin

The consistent embedding of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) effects within the Standard Model requires a rigorous understanding of how Planck-scale deformations manifest at low energies. While phenomenological approaches often introduce…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Leonardo P. G. De Assis

A unified vision of the symmetric coupling of angular momenta and of the quantum mechanical volume operator is illustrated. The focus is on the quantum mechanical angular momentum theory of Wigner's 6j symbols and on the volume operator of…

We study the algebra of invariant representative functions over the N-fold Cartesian product of copies of a compact Lie group G modulo the action of conjugation by the diagonal subgroup. We construct a basis of invariant representative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 P. D. Jarvis , G. Rudolph , M. Schmidt

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

Variables parametrized by closed and open curves are defined to reformulate compact U(1) Quantum Electrodynamics in the circle with a massless fermion field. It is found that the gauge invariant nature of these variables accommodates into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Gambini , H. A. Morales-Tecotl , L. F. Urrutia , J. D. Vergara

We study the operator that corresponds to the measurement of volume, in non-perturbative quantum gravity, and we compute its spectrum. The operator is constructed in the loop representation, via a regularization procedure; it is finite,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Carlo Rovelli , Lee Smolin

The problem of simulating complex quantum processes on classical computers gave rise to the field of quantum simulations. Quantum simulators solve problems, such as Boson sampling, where classical counterparts fail. In another field of…

We focus on three-dimensional QRLG with the purpose of shedding light on the link between reduced LQG and LQC in four space-time dimensions. Considering homogeneous three-dimensional LQG, the theory simplifies to QRLG. We then implement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-06 Jakub Bilski , Antonino Marciano

In recent twenty years, loop quantum gravity, a background independent approach to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics, has been widely investigated. We consider the quantum dynamics of a real massless scalar field coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Muxin Han , Yongge Ma