Quantum Gravity

I’ll give a review of extended phase space in gauge theories and/or diffeomorphism-invariant theories, beginning with its original conception up to our most recent work. The primary focus in a classical theory is on the proper representation of symmetries and gauge symmetries on phase space…

Incorporating time poses a challenge for all quantum gravity programs primarily build around Euclidean spacetimes. This talk surveys how the gravitational asymptotic safety program may address this challenge by encoding the gravitational degrees of freedom via the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM)…

Group field theory (GFT) is a background independent approach to quantum gravity in which the quanta represent "building blocks of space". It has been successfully applied to the cosmological setting and shown to have the potential for rich phenomenology. In this talk we will explore a novel…

It is a general expectation in several approaches to quantum gravity that continuum physics emerges as a macroscopic phenomenon from the collective behavior of fundamental quantum gravity degrees of freedom. However, a physical understanding of this emergence process requires us to address deeply…

In this presentation, I will discuss two distinct topics, one relating to the foundational aspects of LQG and the other concerning its applicational implications. Firstly, I will explore the U(1)^3 model of Euclidean Quantum Gravity, which serves as an interesting testing ground for the dynamics…

According to the Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz conjecture, the Bianchi IX spacetime describes the evolution of each spatial point close to a generic spacelike singularity. However, near the singularity, quantum effects are expected to be relevant. Therefore, in this work a quantum analysis of the…

In the quest to understand the fundamental structure of spacetime (and subsystems) in quantum gravity, it may be worth exploring the ultimate consequences of non-perturbative canonical quantization, carefully taking into account the constraints and gauge invariance of general relativity. As the…

Recently, models with different properties have been proposed for polymerized dust collapse and regular black holes. To fully understand their properties and differences, we provide a systematic procedure to construct effective polymerized spherically symmetric models encoding holonomy corrections…

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In the last years, asymptotic symmetries have regained a lot of interest, and various extensions of the well known BMS group have been considered in the literature. Many charges associated to the diffeomorphisms of the sphere (superboosts and superrotations) have been proposed, but it has not been…

To develop a quantum gravity theory, it is fundamental to move away from the gauge-fixing approach and instead employ a gauge-free analysis. There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that the symmetries employed for gauge-fixing might carry charge. Consequently, setting the associated…

We use a result of Hawking and Gilkey to define a Euclidean path integral of gravity and matter which has the special property of being independent of the choice of basis in the space of fields. This property allows the path integral to describe also physical regimes that do not admit position bases…