Continuum spin foam model for 3d gravity

DOI10.1063/1.1509850MaRDI QIDQ4832812zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors José A. Zapata

Publication date 14 December 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205037, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.339.662

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: An example illustrating a continuum spin foam framework is presented. This covariant framework induces the kinematics of canonical loop quantization, and its dynamics is generated by a {em renormalized} sum over colored polyhedra. Physically the example corresponds to 3d gravity with cosmological constant. Starting from a kinematical structure that accommodates local degrees of freedom and does not involve the choice of any background structure (e. g. triangulation), the dynamics reduces the field theory to have only global degrees of freedom. The result is {em projectively} equivalent to the Turaev-Viro model.

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