Spin foams with timelike surfaces

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/15/155014zbMATH Open1195.83038arXiv1003.5652OpenAlexW2052000523MaRDI QIDQ3586302FDOQ3586302

Authors: Florian Conrady 

Publication date: 6 September 2010

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

Abstract: Spin foams of 4d gravity were recently extended from complexes with purely spacelike surfaces to complexes that also contain timelike surfaces. In this article, we express the associated partition function in terms of vertex amplitudes and integrals over coherent states. The coherent states are characterized by unit 3--vectors which represent normals to surfaces and lie either in the 2--sphere or the 2d hyperboloids. In the case of timelike surfaces, a new type of coherent state is used and the associated completeness relation is derived. It is also shown that the quantum simplicity constraints can be deduced by three different methods: by weak imposition of the constraints, by restriction of coherent state bases and by the master constraint.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5652

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmic censorshipspace-time singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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