Spin foam diagrammatics and topological invariance
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Publication:4532779
DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/6/305zbMath0996.83021arXivgr-qc/0111022WikidataQ62100752 ScholiaQ62100752MaRDI QIDQ4532779
Alejandro Perez, Florian Girelli, Robert Oeckl
Publication date: 26 October 2002
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0111022
partition function; simplicial decomposition; topological invariance; diagrammatic language; state sum model
83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field
14J80: Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants)
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