Published June 15, 2006
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Journal article
Volume operator for singly polarized gravity waves with planar or cylindrical symmetry
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 (United States)
Description
A previous paper constructed a kinematic basis for spin networks with planar or cylindrical symmetry and arbitrary polarization. This paper imposes a constraint which limits the gravitational wave to a single polarization. The spectrum of the constraint contains a physically reasonable number of zero eigenvalues, and the zero eigenvectors can be constructed explicitly. Commutation of the constraint with the Hamiltonian is expected to lead to a further constraint. This new constraint is not investigated in this paper, but I argue it will be nonlocal, relating states at two or more neighboring vertices
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.124005;
- arXiv
- arXiv:gr-qc/0511006v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 73
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 124005-124005.5
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37078459
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGY; CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION; EIGENFUNCTIONS; EIGENVALUES; EIGENVECTORS; FIELD OPERATORS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; GRAVITY WAVES; HAMILTONIANS; POLARIZATION; SPIN; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CONFIGURATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 The American Physical Society