Jun 2–6, 2025
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Three for Lee

Jun 5, 2025, 9:15 a.m.
15m
PI/3-394 - Skyroom (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/3-394 - Skyroom

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

60
Conference Talk

Speaker

Madhavan Varadrajan

Description

I will present three results:
1. Violation of positivity of energy in the extension of classical General Relativity provided by Ashtekar's polynomial formulation by virtue of its admittance of initial data with degenerate (densitized) triads.
2. Consistency of Propagation in the sense articulated by Lee with the apparent ``ultralocal'' action of the Hamiltonian constraint in LQG.
3. An explicit demonstration of the consistency of area discreteness with Lorentz Invariance for an LQG type quantization of
free scalar field theory on 1+1 flat spacetime formulated in a diffeomorphism invariant disguise.

The first two results were obtained as answers to direct questions from Lee, the third is a new result and all three are motivated by issues connected with Dynamics, and hence, Time in LQG.

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