Four-dimensional spin foam perturbation theory

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2011.094zbMATH Open1250.81097arXiv0911.1700OpenAlexW2138531019WikidataQ57602575 ScholiaQ57602575MaRDI QIDQ431371FDOQ431371

João Martins, A. Miković

Publication date: 26 June 2012

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define a four-dimensional spin-foam perturbation theory for the $mBF$-theory with a $BwedgeB$ potential term defined for a compact semi-simple Lie group $G$ on a compact orientable 4-manifold $M$. This is done by using the formal spin foam perturbative series coming from the spin-foam generating functional. We then regularize the terms in the perturbative series by passing to the category of representations of the quantum group $U_q(mathfrakg)$ where $mathfrakg$ is the Lie algebra of $G$ and $q$ is a root of unity. The Chain-Mail formalism can be used to calculate the perturbative terms when the vector space of intertwiners $LambdaotimesLambdaoA$, where $A$ is the adjoint representation of $mathfrakg$, is 1-dimensional for each irrep $Lambda$. We calculate the partition function $Z$ in the dilute-gas limit for a special class of triangulations of restricted local complexity, which we conjecture to exist on any 4-manifold $M$. We prove that the first-order perturbative contribution vanishes for finite triangulations, so that we define a dilute-gas limit by using the second-order contribution. We show that $Z$ is an analytic continuation of the Crane-Yetter partition function. Furthermore, we relate $Z$ to the partition function for the $FwedgeF$ theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1700

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zbMATH Keywords

spin networksBF-theorycrane-Yetter invariantdilute-gas limitspin foam modelsspin-foam perturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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