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Title
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LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY DYNAMICS: MODELS AND APPLICATIONS.
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Creator
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Vilensky, Ilya, Engle, Jonathan, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Physics
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Abstract/Description
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In this dissertation we study the dynamics of loop quantum gravity and its applications. We propose a tunneling phenomenon of a black hole-white hole transition and derive an amplitude for such transition using the spinfoam framework. We investigate a special class of kinematical states for loop quantum gravity - Bell spin networks - and show that their entanglement entropy obeys the area law. We develop a new spinfoam vertex amplitude that has the correct semi-classical limit. We then apply...
Show moreIn this dissertation we study the dynamics of loop quantum gravity and its applications. We propose a tunneling phenomenon of a black hole-white hole transition and derive an amplitude for such transition using the spinfoam framework. We investigate a special class of kinematical states for loop quantum gravity - Bell spin networks - and show that their entanglement entropy obeys the area law. We develop a new spinfoam vertex amplitude that has the correct semi-classical limit. We then apply this new amplitude to calculate the graviton propagator and a cosmological transition amplitude. The results of these calculations show feasibility of computations with the new amplitude and its viability as a spinfoam model. Finally, we use physical principles to radically constrain ambiguities in the cosmological dynamics and derive unique Hamiltonian dynamics for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker and Bianchi I cosmologies.
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Date Issued
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2019
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013349
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Subject Headings
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Quantum gravity, Loop quantum gravity, Cosmology, Spinfoam
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Format
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Document (PDF)
