On the configuration spaces of homogeneous loop quantum cosmology and loop quantum gravity

Sep, 2007
11 pages
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The set of homogeneous isotropic connections, as used in loop quantum cosmology, forms a line ll in the space of all connections A\cal A. This embedding, however, does not continuously extend to an embedding of the configuration space lˉ\bar l of homogeneous isotropic loop quantum cosmology into that of loop quantum gravity, Aˉ\bar{\cal A}. This follows from the fact that the parallel transports for general, non-straight paths in the base manifold do not depend almost periodically on ll. Analogous results are given for the anisotropic case.
  • quantum cosmology: loop space
  • quantum gravity: loop space
  • cosmological model
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • fibre bundle: SU(2)
  • energy
  • phase space
  • differential equations
  • embedding