Speaker
Dr
Jonathan Ziprick
(urn:Google)
Description
We study a pressureless dust coupled to gravity with an arbitrary cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in 2+1 dimensions. This theory has interesting classical solutions and yet remains simple enough to explore the non-perturbative quantization of gravitational degrees of freedom. On the classical side we find the Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole as a static solution when $\Lambda<0$, and for $\Lambda=0$ we find solutions with moving apparent horizons. We are able to quantize a sector of the classical solution space, and look in particular at the horizon operator which measures the location of apparent horizons. Notably, this operator is found to have a non-zero variance on coherent states, implying that apparent horizons are subject to quantum fluctuations.
Primary authors
Dr
Jonathan Ziprick
(urn:Google)
Dr
Viqar Husain
(University of New Brunswick)
