Spin foam models of Riemannian quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/301zbMATH Open1021.83015arXivgr-qc/0202017OpenAlexW3104264810WikidataQ57088592 ScholiaQ57088592MaRDI QIDQ4789692FDOQ4789692

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)

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.

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

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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)

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