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Hauptverfasser: Fei, Xiaotian, Long, Gaoping, Ma, Yongge, Zhang, Cong
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15628
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author Fei, Xiaotian
Long, Gaoping
Ma, Yongge
Zhang, Cong
author_facet Fei, Xiaotian
Long, Gaoping
Ma, Yongge
Zhang, Cong
contents The ingoing and outgoing null expansions associated to a spatial 2-sphere are quantized in the spherically symmetric model of loop quantum gravity. It is shown that the resulting expansion operators are self-adjoint in the kinematical Hilbert space with generalized eigenstates. It turns out that the outgoing and ingoing expansion operators share the common continuous part of their spectra but have different additional isolated eigenvalues. These results provide new insights on the avoidance of the singularities in classical general relativity and the establishment of certain notion of quantum horizons.
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spellingShingle Expansion operators in spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity
Fei, Xiaotian
Long, Gaoping
Ma, Yongge
Zhang, Cong
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
The ingoing and outgoing null expansions associated to a spatial 2-sphere are quantized in the spherically symmetric model of loop quantum gravity. It is shown that the resulting expansion operators are self-adjoint in the kinematical Hilbert space with generalized eigenstates. It turns out that the outgoing and ingoing expansion operators share the common continuous part of their spectra but have different additional isolated eigenvalues. These results provide new insights on the avoidance of the singularities in classical general relativity and the establishment of certain notion of quantum horizons.
title Expansion operators in spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15628