EPRL/FK asymptotics and the flatness problem
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Publication:3177404
DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAAE82zbMATH Open1391.83045arXiv1704.04817OpenAlexW3098513280MaRDI QIDQ3177404FDOQ3177404
Publication date: 25 July 2018
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Spin foam models are an approach to quantum gravity based on the concept of sum over states, which aims to describe quantum spacetime dynamics in a way that its parent framework, loop quantum gravity, has not as of yet succeeded. Since these models' relation to classical Einstein gravity is not explicit, an important test of their viabilitiy is the study of asymptotics - the classical theory should be obtained in a limit where quantum effects are negligible, taken to be the limit of large triangle areas in a triangulated manifold with boundary. In this paper we will briefly introduce the EPRL/FK spin foam model and known results about its asymptotics, proceeding then to describe a practical computation of spin foam and semiclassical geometric data for a simple triangulation with only one interior triangle. The results are used to comment on the "flatness problem" - a hypothesis raised by Bonzom (2009) suggesting that EPRL/FK's classical limit only describes flat geometries in vacuum.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04817
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