PIRSA:14110116

Worldline formalism for covariant loop gravity

Wieland, W. (2014). Worldline formalism for covariant loop gravity. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14110116

Wieland, Wolfgang. Worldline formalism for covariant loop gravity. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 06, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14110116 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:14110116,
            doi = {10.48660/14110116},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14110116},
            author = {Wieland, Wolfgang},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Worldline formalism for covariant loop gravity},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2014},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:14110116 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Wolfgang Wieland University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

DOI 10.48660/14110116
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I present a proposal for a worldline action for discretized gravity with the same field content as loop quantum gravity. The proposal is defined through its action, which is a one-dimensional integral over the edges of the discretization. Every edge carries a finite-dimensional phase space, and the evolution equations are generated by a Hamiltonian, which is a sum over the constraints of the theory. I will explain the relevance of the model, and close with possible relations to other approaches of quantum gravity, including: relative locality, causal sets and twistor theory.