A new spin foam model for 4D gravity

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/12/125018zbMATH Open1144.83007arXiv0708.1595OpenAlexW3099065504WikidataQ55894300 ScholiaQ55894300MaRDI QIDQ3514976FDOQ3514976


Authors: Laurent Freidel, Kirill Krasnov Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 23 July 2008

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

Abstract: Starting from Plebanski formulation of gravity as a constrained BF theory we propose a new spin foam model for 4d Riemannian quantum gravity that generalises the well-known Barrett-Crane model and resolves the inherent to it ultra-locality problem. The BF formulation of 4d gravity possesses two sectors: gravitational and topological ones. The model presented here is shown to give a quantization of the gravitational sector, and is dual to the recently proposed spin foam model of Engle et al. which, we show, corresponds to the topological sector. Our methods allow us to introduce the Immirzi parameter into the framework of spin foam quantisation. We generalize some of our considerations to the Lorentzian setting and obtain a new spin foam model in that context as well.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1595




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