Quantum Field Theory of Open Spin Networks and New Spin Foam Models

DOI10.1142/S0217751X0301797XzbMATH Open1080.83511arXivgr-qc/0202026OpenAlexW2012266723WikidataQ57602590 ScholiaQ57602590MaRDI QIDQ3370191FDOQ3370191

A. Miković

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe how a spin-foam state sum model can be reformulated as a quantum field theory of spin networks, such that the Feynman diagrams of that field theory are the spin-foam amplitudes. In the case of open spin networks, we obtain a new type of state-sum models, which we call the matter spin foam models. In this type of state-sum models, one labels both the faces and the edges of the dual two-complex for a manifold triangulation with the simple objects from a tensor category. In the case of Lie groups, such a model corresponds to a quantization of a theory whose fields are the principal bundle connection and the sections of the associated vector bundles. We briefly discuss the relevance of the matter spin foam models for quantum gravity and for topological quantum field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0202026

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

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