Loop quantum modified gravity and its cosmological application

doi:10.1007/s11467-013-0277-0

Front. Phys.

2013, Vol. 8

Issue (1) : 80-93 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-013-0277-0

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Loop quantum modified gravity and its cosmological application

Xiang-Dong Zhang^1,2(

), Yong-Ge Ma²(

)

1. Department of Physics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China; 2. Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

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Abstract

A general nonperturvative loop quantization procedure for metric modified gravity is reviewed. As an example, this procedure is applied to scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The quantum kinematical framework of these theories is rigorously constructed. Both the Hamiltonian and master constraint operators are well defined and proposed to represent quantum dynamics of scalar-tensor theories. As an application to models, we set up the basic structure of loop quantum Brans-Dicke cosmology. The effective dynamical equations of loop quantum Brans-Dicke cosmology are also obtained, which lay a foundation for the phenomenological investigation to possible quantum gravity effects in cosmology.

Keywords loop quantum gravity scalar-tensor theories

Corresponding Author(s): Zhang Xiang-Dong,Email:scxdzhang@scut.edu.cn; Ma Yong-Ge,Email:mayg@bnu.edu.cn

Issue Date: 01 February 2013

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Xiang-Dong Zhang,Yong-Ge Ma. Loop quantum modified gravity and its cosmological application[J]. Front. Phys. , 2013, 8(1): 80-93.

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