Lorentzian spin foam amplitudes: graphical calculus and asymptotics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/16/165009MaRDI QIDQ3586320zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Barrett, Winston J. Fairbairn, Frank Hellmann, Roberto Pereira, Richard J. Dowdall

Publication date 6 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2440

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic censorshipspace-time singularitieslattice gravityincluding asymmetric field theoriesRegge calculus and other discrete methodsrelativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: The amplitude for the 4-simplex in a spin foam model for quantum gravity is defined using a graphical calculus for the unitary representations of the Lorentz group. The asymptotics of this amplitude are studied in the limit when the representation parameters are large, for various cases of boundary data. It is shown that for boundary data corresponding to a Lorentzian simplex, the asymptotic formula has two terms, with phase plus or minus the Lorentzian signature Regge action for the 4-simplex geometry, multiplied by an Immirzi parameter. Other cases of boundary data are also considered, including a surprising contribution from Euclidean signature metrics.

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