Physical Observables in Canonical Quantum Gravity
PIRSA ID:
23020038
Series:
Quantum Gravity
Event Type:
Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Quantum Gravity
End date:
Speaker(s):
- Axel Maas, University of Graz
Canonical Quantum Gravity can be considered as a gauge theory of translations. Just like in other gauge theories this implies that physical observables need to be gauge-invariant. Hence, quantities like the metric cannot be observables. This poses new challenges, as this requires to rephrase in the quantum theory how to characterize physics. Moreover, such observables are usually composite. To determine them, the Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism from QFT can be borrowed, to have an augmented perturbative approach.
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