The EPRL intertwiners and corrected partition function

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/16/165020zbMATH Open1197.83060arXiv0912.0540OpenAlexW3101941721WikidataQ58879805 ScholiaQ58879805MaRDI QIDQ3586331FDOQ3586331

Marcin Kisielowski, Jerzy Lewandowski, Wojciech Kamiński

Publication date: 6 September 2010

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

Abstract: Do the SU(2) intertwiners parametrize the space of the EPRL solutions to the simplicity constraint? What is a complete form of the partition function written in terms of this parametrization? We prove that the EPRL map is injective for n-valent vertex in case when it is a map from SO(3) into SO(3)xSO(3) representations. We find, however, that the EPRL map is not isometric. In the consequence, in order to be written in a SU(2) amplitude form, the formula for the partition function has to be rederived. We do it and obtain a new, complete formula for the partition function. The result goes beyond the SU(2) spin-foam models framework.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0540

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zbMATH Keywords

quantization of the gravitational fieldHilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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