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PIRSA:16110089

Symmetries of Flat Quantum Spacetime

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Kowalski-Glikman, J. (2016). Symmetries of Flat Quantum Spacetime. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/16110089

Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman University of Wrocław

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Abstract

By applying loop quantum gravity techniques to 2+1 gravity with a positive cosmological constant Λ, we show how the local gauge symmetry of the theory encoded in the constraint algebra acquires the quantum group structure of SOq(4). By means of an Inonu-Wigner contraction of the quantum group bi-algebra we obtain the kappa-Poincaré algebra of the flat quantum space-time symmetries.