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Anomaly freedom in perturbative models of Euclidean loop quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-11-21 v1

Abstract

Euclidean gravity provides an interesting test system for an analysis of cosmological perturbations in an effective Hamiltonian constraint with holonomy modifications from loop quantum gravity. This paper presents a discussion of scalar modes, with a specific form of the holonomy modification function derived from a general expansion in a connection formulation. Compared with some previous models, the constraint brackets are deformed in a different and more restricted way. A general comparison of anomaly-free brackets in various effective and operator versions shows overall consistency between different approaches.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04465,
  title  = {Anomaly freedom in perturbative models of Euclidean loop quantum gravity},
  author = {Jian-Pin Wu and Martin Bojowald and Yongge Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04465},
  year   = {2018}
}

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34 pages

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