Speaker
Matteo Bruno
(Sapienza University of Rome)
Description
This talk presents a novel symmetry-reduction approach that preserves local gauge degrees of freedom. We apply this procedure to identify a classical cosmological sector of General Relativity formulated in Ashtekar variables. The quantization follows the techniques of Loop Quantum Gravity and yields spin-network states with remarkable properties, closely resembling those of standard LQC states. We will show that the implementation of the kinematical constraints can be achieved via a suitable rigging map, and we will discuss the quantum dynamics.
Primary author
Matteo Bruno
(Sapienza University of Rome)
