Photons from quantized electric flux representations

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dc.contributor.author	Varadarajan, Madhavan	-
dc.date.accessioned	2006-05-12T04:25:48Z	-
dc.date.available	2006-05-12T04:25:48Z	-
dc.date.issued	2001-09-28	-
dc.identifier.citation	Physical Review D, 2001, Vol.64, 104003	en
dc.identifier.issn	1550-7998	-
dc.identifier.issn	1550-2368 (online)	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1190	-
dc.description.abstract	The quantum theory of U(1) connections admits a diffeomorphism invariant representation in which the electric flux through any surface is quantized. This representation is the analog of the representation of quantum SU(2) theory used in loop quantum gravity. We investigate the relation between this representation, in which the basic excitations are “polymerlike,” and the Fock representation, in which the basic excitations are wavelike photons. We show that normalizable states in the Fock space are associated with “distributional” states in the quantized electric flux representation. This work is motivated by the question of how wavelike gravitons in linearized gravity arise from polymerlike states in nonperturbative loop quantum gravity.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	-
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	The American Physical Society	en
dc.relation.uri	http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v64/i10/e104003	en
dc.rights	(2001) by the American Physical Society	en
dc.title	Photons from quantized electric flux representations	en
dc.type	Article	en
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