Yang-Mills analogs of the Immirzi ambiguity

Gambini, Rodolfo; Obregon, Octavio; Pullin, Jorge

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.047505

Yang-Mills analogs of the Immirzi ambiguity

Rodolfo Gambini
(
- Republica U., Montevideo
)
,
Octavio Obregon
(
- Guanajuato U., FIMEE
)
,
Jorge Pullin
(
- Penn State U.
)

Jan, 1998

5 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 59 (1999) 047505

e-Print:

gr-qc/9801055 [gr-qc]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.047505

Report number:

CGPG-98-1-2

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We draw parallels between the recently introduced ``Immirzi ambiguity'' of the Ashtekar-like formulation of canonical quantum gravity and other ambiguities that appear in Yang-Mills theories, like the

\theta

ambiguity. We also discuss ambiguities in the Maxwell case, and implication for the loop quantization of these theories.

general relativity
gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
quantization
Hamiltonian formalism

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