Diffeomorphisms from finite triangulations and absence of `local' degrees of freedom

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.04.026MaRDI QIDQ447204zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hendryk Pfeiffer

Publication date 9 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0312060

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravitydiffeomorphismholographygeneral covariancespin foam model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: If the diffeomorphism symmetry of general relativity is fully implemented into a path integral quantum theory, the path integral leads to a partition function which is an invariant of smooth manifolds. We comment on the physical implications of results on the classification of smooth and piecewise-linear 4-manifolds which show that the partition function can already be computed from a triangulation of space-time. Such a triangulation characterizes the topology and the differentiable structure, but is completely unrelated to any physical cut-off. It can be arbitrarily refined without affecting the physical predictions and without increasing the number of degrees of freedom proportionally to the volume. Only refinements at the boundary have a physical significance as long as the experimenters who observe through this boundary, can increase the resolution of their measurements. All these are consequences of the symmetries. The Planck scale cut-off expected in quantum gravity is rather a dynamical effect.

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