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Regularization of the cosmological sector of loop quantum gravity with bosonic matter and the related problems with general covariance of quantum corrections

Jakub Bilski
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This article concerns the problems regarding different lattice regularization techniques for the matter fields of Hamiltonian constraints defined in the framework of loop quantum gravity. The analysis is formulated in the phase space-reduced cosmological model of the hypothetical theory of canonical quantum general relativity. This article explains why a different than links-related lattice smearing of fields leads to a local violation of general covariance. This happens by assuming, for instance, the nodes-related smearing. Therefore, this problem occurs in the case of any polymerlike scalar field quantization method by breaking the background independence of the semiclassical predictions. In consequence, the diffeomorphism symmetry that depends on a links distribution is broken locally at the level of generally relativistic corrections. Moreover, by using the phase space-reduced gauge fixing technique to analyze this issue, the results are general and they concern any coupling with the links-regularized gravitational degrees of freedom in loop quantum gravity. Therefore, they lead to the following no-go conclusion. Any lattice smearing of matter, not defined by using the geometrical distribution specified by the links-fluxes duality, violates the general principle of relativity.

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Jakub Bilski. 2020-01-13. Regularization of the cosmological sector of loop quantum gravity with bosonic matter and the related problems with general covariance of quantum corrections. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.046008

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