Spin foam models of Riemannian quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/301MaRDI QIDQ4789692zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John Baez, J. Daniel Christensen, Thomas R. Halford, David Tsang

Publication date 13 May 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0202017

zbMATH Keywords

partition functionquantum gravityspin foam modelsspin-zero dominance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

Abstract: Using numerical calculations, we compare three versions of the Barrett-Crane model of 4-dimensional Riemannian quantum gravity. In the version with face and edge amplitudes as described by De Pietri, Freidel, Krasnov, and Rovelli, we show the partition function diverges very rapidly for many triangulated 4-manifolds. In the version with modified face and edge amplitudes due to Perez and Rovelli, we show the partition function converges so rapidly that the sum is dominated by spin foams where all the spins labelling faces are zero except for small, widely separated islands of higher spin. We also describe a new version which appears to have a convergent partition function without drastic spin-zero dominance. Finally, after a general discussion of how to extract physics from spin foam models, we discuss the implications of convergence or divergence of the partition function for other aspects of a spin foam model.

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