Spin foam diagrammatics and topological invariance

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/6/305MaRDI QIDQ4532779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Florian Girelli, A. Perez, Robert Oeckl

Publication date 26 October 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0111022

zbMATH Keywords

partition functionsimplicial decompositiontopological invariancediagrammatic languagestate sum model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We provide a simple proof of the topological invariance of the Turaev-Viro model (corresponding to simplicial 3d pure Euclidean gravity with cosmological constant) by means of a novel diagrammatic formulation of the state sum models for quantum BF-theories. Moreover, we prove the invariance under more general conditions allowing the state sum to be defined on arbitrary cellular decompositions of the underlying manifold. Invariance is governed by a set of identities corresponding to local gluing and rearrangement of cells in the complex. Due to the fully algebraic nature of these identities our results extend to a vast class of quantum groups. The techniques introduced here could be relevant for investigating the scaling properties of non-topological state sums, being proposed as models of quantum gravity in 4d, under refinement of the cellular decomposition.

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