In quantum gravity, summing is refining

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/5/055004zbMATH Open1237.83020arXiv1010.5437OpenAlexW2124572913MaRDI QIDQ2880845FDOQ2880845

Authors: Matteo Smerlak, Carlo Rovelli 

Publication date: 17 April 2012

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

Abstract: In perturbative QED, the approximation is improved by summing more Feynman graphs; in non-perturbative QCD, by refining the lattice. Here we observe that in quantum gravity the two procedures may well be the same. We outline the combinatorial structure of spinfoam quantum gravity, define the continuum limit, and show that under general conditions refining foams is the same as summing over them. The conditions bear on the cylindrical consistency of the spinfoam amplitudes and on the presence of appropriate combinatorial factors, related to the implementation of diffeomorphisms invariance. Intuitively, the sites of the lattice are points of space: these are themselves quanta of the gravitational field, and thus a lattice discretization is also a Feynman history of quanta.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5437

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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