On anomaly freedom in spherically symmetric lattice loop quantization
arXiv:1512.05208
Abstract
Anomaly freedom has been one of the most important issues in canonical quantization of gravity. In a physically meaningful (anomaly free) theory, the constraint operators must be first class, and their commutator algebra is expected to resemble the corresponding classical Poisson-bracket algebra. In this paper, we review the "constructive" approach to obtaining a consistent set of constraints: start with a Hamiltonian constraint and generate the corresponding diffeomorphism constraint as a commutator of two Hamiltonians. Closure of the constraint operator algebra then requires that the diffeomorphism operator obtained in this way weakly commutes with another Hamiltonian constraint operator. The same procedure can be used to check the consistency of some proposed quantization schemes that present a candidate Hamiltonian constraint, which we do for a spherically symmetric model.
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