Finiteness and dual variables for Lorentzian spin foam models

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/3/010zbMATH Open1087.83030arXivgr-qc/0508088OpenAlexW3104218833MaRDI QIDQ3376739FDOQ3376739

Authors: J. Wade Cherrington 

Publication date: 24 March 2006

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

Abstract: We describe here some new results concerning the Lorentzian Barrett-Crane model, a well-known spin foam formulation of quantum gravity. Generalizing an existing finiteness result, we provide a concise proof of finiteness of the partition function associated to all non-degenerate triangulations of 4-manifolds and for a class of degenerate triangulations not previously shown. This is accomplished by a suitable re-factoring and re-ordering of integration, through which a large set of variables can be eliminated. The resulting formulation can be interpreted as a ``dual variables model that uses hyperboloid variables associated to spin foam edges in place of representation variables associated to faces. We outline how this method may also be useful for numerical computations, which have so far proven to be very challenging for Lorentzian spin foam models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508088

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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