q -deformed spin foam models of quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/24/13/009MaRDI QIDQ3593271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Khavkine, J. Daniel Christensen

Publication date 20 July 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0278

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We numerically study Barrett-Crane models of Riemannian quantum gravity. We have extended the existing numerical techniques to handle q-deformed models and arbitrary space-time triangulations. We present and interpret expectation values of a few selected observables for each model, including a spin-spin correlation function which gives insight into the behaviour of the models. We find the surprising result that, as the deformation parameter q goes to 1 through roots of unity, the limit is discontinuous.

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