GRAVITY AS BF THEORY PLUS POTENTIAL

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09046151MaRDI QIDQ3395430zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kirill Krasnov

Publication date 1 September 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4064

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityquantum gravityspin foam models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Spin foam models of quantum gravity are based on Plebanski's formulation of general relativity as a constrained BF theory. We give an alternative formulation of gravity as BF theory plus a certain potential term for the B-field. When the potential is taken to be infinitely steep one recovers general relativity. For a generic potential the theory still describes gravity in that it propagates just two graviton polarizations. The arising class of theories is of the type amenable to spin foam quantization methods, and, we argue, may allow one to come to terms with renormalization in the spin foam context.

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