Inducing Barbero-Immirzi connections along SU(2) reductions of bundles on spacetime

L. Fatibene, M. Francaviglia, and M. Ferraris
Phys. Rev. D 84, 064035 – Published 23 September 2011

Abstract

We shall present here a general apt technique to induce connections along bundle reductions, which is different from the standard restriction. This clarifies and generalizes the standard procedure to define Barbero-Immirzi (BI) connection, though on spacetime. The standard spacial BI connection used in LQG is then obtained by its spacetime version by standard restriction. The general prescription to define such a reduced connection is interesting from a mathematical viewpoint, and it allows a general and direct control on transformation laws of the induced object. Moreover, unlike what happens by using standard restriction, we shall show that once a bundle reduction is given, then any connection induces a reduced connection with no constraint on the original holonomy as it happens when connections are simply restricted.

  • Received 2 August 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.064035

© 2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

L. Fatibene* and M. Francaviglia

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Torino, Italy, and INFN-Sezione Torino; Iniziativa Specifica Na12 Italy

M. Ferraris

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Torino, Italy

  • *lorenzo.fatibene@unito.it
  • mauro.francaviglia@unito.it
  • marco.ferraris@unito.it

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Vol. 84, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2011

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