A correction to the Immirzi parameter of SU(2) spin networks

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.01.004zbMATH Open1373.83047arXiv1409.7726OpenAlexW2140134798MaRDI QIDQ1674772FDOQ1674772

Authors: Peng Zhang 

Publication date: 26 October 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The elegant predictions of loop quantum gravity are obscured by the free Immirizi parameter. Dreyer (2003), considering the asymptotic quasinormal modes spectrum of a black hole, proposed that the Immirizi parameter may be fixed by letting the j=1 transitions of spin networks as the dominant processes contributing to the black hole area, as opposed to the expected j=1/2 transitions. This suggested that the gauge group of the theory might be SO(3) rather than SU(2). Corichi (2003), maintaining SU(2) as the underlying gauge group, and invoking the principle of local fermion-number conservation, reported the same value of the Immirizi parameter for j=1 processes as obtained by Dreyer. In this note, preserving the SU(2) structure of the theory, and considering j=1 transitions as the dominant processes, we point out that the value of the Immirizi parameter is in fact twice the value reported by these authors. We arrive at this result by assuming the asymptotic quasinormal modes themselves as dynamical systems obeying SU(2) symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7726

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zbMATH Keywords

black holequasinormal modesloop quantum gravity\(\mathrm{SU}(2)\)isotropic oscillatorImmirzi parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57)

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