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We study gravity coupled to a scalar field in spherical symmetry using loop quantum gravity techniques. Since this model has local degrees of freedom, one has to face ``the problem of dynamics'', that is, diffeomorphism and Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin , Saeed Rastgoo

In this paper we demonstrate closure of the quantum algebra of Hamiltonian constraints in a theory directly related to a certain sector of general relativity reduced to diagonal variables.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-20 Eyo Eyo Ita

In this paper the Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics with spatial cutoffs is investigated. We define a scaled total Hamiltonian and consider its asymptotic behavior. In the main theorem, it is shown that the scaled total Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Toshimitsu Takaesu

An algebraic framework was introduced in our previous works to address the covariance issue in spherically symmetric effective quantum gravity. This paper extends the framework to the electrovacuum case with a cosmological constant. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Jinsong Yang , Cong Zhang , Yongge Ma

We present a new formalism for numerically treating the semiclassical gravitational collapse of a scalar quantum field in the radially symmetric case. Our formalism is time reversal invariant and the evolution of the scalar fields is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Jana N. Guenther , Christian Hoelbling , Lukas Varnhorst

A quantum hamiltonian which evolves the gravitational field according to time as measured by constant surfaces of a scalar field is defined through a regularization procedure based on the loop representation, and is shown to be finite and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 Carlo Rovelli , Lee Smolin

We construct a formalism for evolving spherically symmetric black hole initial data sets within a canonical approach to quantum gravity. This problem can be formulated precisely in quantum reduced loop gravity, a framework which has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-13 Emanuele Alesci , Sina Bahrami , Daniele Pranzetti

Performing a relativistic approximation as the generalization to a curved spacetime of the flat space Klein-Gordon equation, an effective Hamiltonian which includes non-minimial coupling between gravity and scalar field and also quartic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-16 Emine Mese , Nurettin Pirinccioglu , Irfan Acikgoz , Figen Binbay

The functional Schrodinger equation is used to study the quantum collapse of a gravitating, spherical domain wall and a massless scalar field coupled to the metric. The approach includes backreaction of pre-Hawking radiation on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Tanmay Vachaspati

This short note is devoted to the Hamiltonian formulation of the conformal decomposition of the gravitational field that was performed in [gr-qc/0501092]. We also analyze the gauge fixed form of the theory when we fix the conformal symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Kluson

Topological gravity is the reduction of Einstein's theory to spacetimes with vanishing curvature, but with global degrees of freedom related to the topology of the universe. We present an exact Hamiltonian lattice theory for topological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Henri Waelbroeck , Jose Antonio Zapata

This study explores the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field within Quadratic Gravity treated as a dimension-four operator Effective Field Theory extension to General Relativity. The additional degrees of freedom associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-08 Ramiro Cayuso

The Hamiltoinian analysis of the vector-tensor theory of gravity is performed. The resulting geometrical dynamics is reformulated into the connection dynamics, with the real SU(2)-connection serving as one of the configuration variables.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Shengzhi Li , Yongge Ma

The scheme of using the Chern-Simons action to regularize the gravitational Hamiltonian constraint is extended to including the Lorentzian term in the $k=0$ cosmological model. The Euclidean term and the Lorenzian term are thus regularized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-12 Jinsong Yang , Cong Zhang , Yongge Ma

In canonical quantum gravity, when space is a compact manifold with boundary there is a Hamiltonian given by an integral over the boundary. Here we compute the action of this `boundary Hamiltonian' on observables corresponding to open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 John Baez , Javier P. Muniain , Dardo Piriz

Loop quantum gravity in its Hamiltonian form relies on a connection formulation of the gravitational phase space with three key properties: 1.) a compact gauge group, 2.) real variables, and 3.) canonical Poisson brackets. In conjunction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Norbert Bodendorfer , Konstantin Eder , Xiangdong Zhang

We continue our work on the study of spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity coupled to two spherically symmetric scalar fields, one which acts as a clock. As a consequence of the presence of the latter, we can define a true Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

We write the Hamiltonian for a gravitational spherically symmetric scalar field collapse with massive scalar field source, and we discuss the application of Wheeler De Witt equation as well as the appearence of time in this context. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Pinheiro , F. C. Khanna

We study a class of Hamiltonian deformations of the massless Einstein-Klein-Gordon system in spherical symmetry for which the Dirac constraint algebra closes. The system may be regarded as providing effective equations for quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-24 Andreas Kreienbuehl , Viqar Husain , Sanjeev S. Seahra

In general relativity, the Einstein equations provide spherically symmetric static spacetimes with dynamics defined as an evolution along the radial coordinate $r$. The geometrical sector becomes a one-dimensional mechanical system, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Etera R. Livine , Yuki Yokokura