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Entropy and entanglement in polymer quantization. (English) Zbl 1273.83061

Summary: Polymer quantization is a useful toy model for the mathematical aspects of loop quantum gravity and is interesting in its own right. Analyzing entropies of physically equivalent states in the standard Hilbert space and the polymer Hilbert space we show that they converge in the limit of vanishing polymer scale. We derive a general bound that relates entropies of physically equivalent states in unitarily inequivalent representations.

MSC:

83C45 Quantization of the gravitational field
81T20 Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds
94A17 Measures of information, entropy