Spin foams and noncommutative geometry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/20/205025zbMATH Open1202.83043arXiv1005.1057OpenAlexW3102080391WikidataQ60020338 ScholiaQ60020338MaRDI QIDQ3058024FDOQ3058024

Matilde Marcolli, Domenic Denicola, Ahmad Zainy al-Yasry

Publication date: 18 November 2010

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

Abstract: We extend the formalism of embedded spin networks and spin foams to include topological data that encode the underlying three-manifold or four-manifold as a branched cover. These data are expressed as monodromies, in a way similar to the encoding of the gravitational field via holonomies. We then describe convolution algebras of spin networks and spin foams, based on the different ways in which the same topology can be realized as a branched covering via covering moves, and on possible composition operations on spin foams. We illustrate the case of the groupoid algebra of the equivalence relation determined by covering moves and a 2-semigroupoid algebra arising from a 2-category of spin foams with composition operations corresponding to a fibered product of the branched coverings and the gluing of cobordisms. The spin foam amplitudes then give rise to dynamical flows on these algebras, and the existence of low temperature equilibrium states of Gibbs form is related to questions on the existence of topological invariants of embedded graphs and embedded two-complexes with given properties. We end by sketching a possible approach to combining the spin network and spin foam formalism with matter within the framework of spectral triples in noncommutative geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1057

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

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