Imposing detE > 0 in discrete quantum gravity
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Imposing det E > 0 in discrete quantum gravity
We point out that the inequality det E > 0 distinguishes the kinematical phase space of canonical connection gravity from that of a gauge field theory, and characterize the eigen-vectors with positive, negative and zero-eigenvalue of the corresponding quantum operator in a lattice-discretized version of the theory. The diagonalization ofˆdet E is simplified by classifying its eigenvectors accor...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physics Letters B
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/s0370-2693(97)00303-1