Boosting Wigner's nj-symbols

DOI10.1063/1.4977752zbMATH Open1362.83013OpenAlexW3102507666MaRDI QIDQ2974641FDOQ2974641

Authors: Simone Speziale 

Publication date: 10 April 2017

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the SL(2,C) Clebsch-Gordan coefficients appearing in the lorentzian EPRL spin foam amplitudes for loop quantum gravity. We show how the amplitudes decompose into SU(2) nj-symbols at the vertices and integrals over boosts at the edges. The integrals define edge amplitudes that can be evaluated analytically using and adapting results in the literature, leading to a pure state sum model formulation. This procedure introduces virtual representations which, in a manner reminiscent to virtual momenta in Feynman amplitudes, are off-shell of the simplicity constraints present in the theory, but with the integrands that peak at the on-shell values. We point out some properties of the edge amplitudes which are helpful for numerical and analytical evaluations of spin foam amplitudes, and suggest among other things a simpler model useful for calculations of certain lowest order amplitudes. As an application, we estimate the large spin scaling behaviour of the simpler model, on a closed foam with all 4-valent edges and Euler characteristic X, to be N^(X - 5E + V/2). The paper contains a review and an extension of results on SL(2,C) Clebsch-Gordan coefficients among unitary representations of the principal series that can be useful beyond their application to quantum gravity considered here.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01632

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zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristicloop quantum gravityClebsch-Gordan coefficientsFeynman amplitudesspin foamboosts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Direct sums, direct products, etc. for abelian groups (20K25)

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