We propose a new treatment of the quantum simplicity constraints appearing in the general SO(D + 1) formulation of loop quantum gravity for the (1 + D)-dimensional space-time. Instead of strongly imposing the constraints, we construct a specific form of weak solutions by employing the spin net-work states with specific SO(D + 1) coherent intertwiners. These states weakly satisfy the quantum simplicity constraint via the vanishing expectation values, and the quantum Gaussian constraints can be imposed strongly. Remarkably, those specific SO(D + 1) coherent intertwiners used to construct our solutions have natural interpretations of the D-dimensional polytopes, commonly viewed as basic units of the discrete spatial geometry. Therefore, while the strong imposition of the quantum simplicity constraints leads to an over-constrained solution space, our weak solution space for the constraints may contain the correct semiclassical degrees of freedom for intrinsic geometry of the spatial hypersurfaces. Moreover, some concrete relations are established between our construction and other existing approaches in solving the simplicity constraints in all dimensional loop quantum gravity, providing valuable insights into this unresolved important issue. *
Two strategies for constructing general geometric operators in all dimensional loop quantum gravity are proposed. The different constructions are mainly come from the two different regularization methods for the de-densitized dual momentum, which play the role of building block for the spatial geometry. The first regularization method is a generalization of the regularization of the length operator in standard (1 + 3)-dimensional loop quantum gravity, while the second method is a natural extension of those for standard (D-1)-area and D-volume operators. Two versions of general geometric operators to measure arbitrary m-areas are constructed, and their properties are discussed and compared. They serve as valuable candidates to study the quantum geometry in arbitrary dimensions.
We propose a new kind of coherent state for the general SO(D + 1) formulation of loop quantum gravity in the (1 + D)-dimensional space-time. Instead of Thiemann's coherent state for SO(D+1) gauge theory, our coherent spin-network state is given by constructing proper superposition over quantum numbers of the spin-networks with vertices labelled by the coherent intertwiners. Such superposition type coherent states are labelled by the so-called generalized twisted geometric variables which capture the geometric meaning of discretized general relativity. We study the basic properties of this kind of coherent states, i.e., the completeness and peakedness property. Moreover, we show that the superposition type coherent states are consistent with Thiemann's coherent state for SO(D + 1) gauge theory in large η limit.
The Lasserre’s reconstruction algorithm is extended to the D-polytopes with the construction of their shape space. Thus, the areas of d-skeletons $$(1\le d\le D)$$
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can be expressed as functions of the areas and normal bi-vectors of the (D-1)-faces of D-polytopes. As weak solutions of the simplicity constraints in all dimensional loop quantum gravity, the simple coherent intertwiners are employed to describe semiclassical D-polytopes. New general geometric operators based on D-polytopes are proposed by using the Lasserre’s reconstruction algorithm and the coherent intertwiners. Such kind of geometric operators have expected semiclassical property by the definition. The consistent semiclassical limit with respect to the semiclassical D-polytopes can be obtained for the usual D-volume operator in all dimensional loop quantum gravity by fixing its undetermined regularization factor case by case.
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