Polyhedra in spacetime from null vectors

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/1/015011MaRDI QIDQ5405324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yasha Neiman

Publication date 2 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1982

zbMATH Keywords

polyhedraintertwinersloop quantum gravity (LQG)spinfoams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Special relativity (83A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We consider convex spacelike polyhedra oriented in Minkowski space. These are the classical analogues of spinfoam intertwiners. We point out a parametrization of these shapes using null face normals, with no constraints or redundancies. Our construction is dimension-independent. In 3+1d, it provides the spacetime picture behind a well-known property of the loop quantum gravity intertwiner space in spinor form, namely that the closure constraint is always satisfied after some SL(2,C) rotation. As a simple application of our variables, we incorporate them in a 4-simplex action that reproduces the large-spin behavior of the Barrett-Crane vertex amplitude.

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