Holomorphic simplicity constraints for 4D spinfoam models

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/21/215022zbMATH Open1230.83076arXiv1104.3683OpenAlexW3099758514WikidataQ64007781 ScholiaQ64007781MaRDI QIDQ3102283FDOQ3102283

Authors: Maïté Dupuis, Etera R. Livine 

Publication date: 2 December 2011

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

Abstract: Within the framework of spinfoam models, we revisit the simplicity constraints reducing topological BF theory to 4d Riemannian gravity. We use the reformulation of SU(2) intertwiners and spin networks in term of spinors, which has come out from both the recently developed U(N) framework for SU(2) intertwiners and the twisted geometry approach to spin networks and spinfoam boundary states. Using these tools, we are able to perform a holomorphic/anti-holomorphic splitting of the simplicity constraints and define a new set of holomorphic simplicity constraints, which are equivalent to the standard ones at the classical level and which can be imposed strongly on intertwiners at the quantum level. We then show how to solve these new holomorphic simplicity constraints using coherent intertwiner states. We further define the corresponding coherent spin network functionals and introduce a new spinfoam model for 4d Riemannian gravity based on these holomorphic simplicity constraints and whose amplitudes are defined from the evaluation of the new coherent spin networks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3683

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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