Spin foam diagrammatics and topological invariance

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/6/305zbMATH Open0996.83021arXivgr-qc/0111022OpenAlexW2013935989WikidataQ62100752 ScholiaQ62100752MaRDI QIDQ4532779FDOQ4532779

Authors: Florian Girelli, A. Perez, Robert Oeckl 

Publication date: 26 October 2002

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

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.

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

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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)

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