Local spinfoam expansion in loop quantum cosmology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/2/025003MaRDI QIDQ3078311zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Henderson, Francesca Vidotto, Edward Wilson-Ewing, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date 18 February 2011

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0502

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The quantum dynamics of the flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker and Bianchi I models defined by loop quantum cosmology have recently been translated into a spinfoam-like formalism. The construction is facilitated by the presence of a massless scalar field which is used as an internal clock. The implicit integration over the matter variable leads to a nonlocal spinfoam amplitude. In this paper we consider a vacuum Bianchi I universe and show that by choosing an appropriate regulator a spinfoam expansion can be obtained without selecting a clock variable and that the resulting spinfoam amplitude is local.

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