A finiteness bound for the EPRL/FK spin foam model

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/3/035001MaRDI QIDQ4920139zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. Miković, M. Vojinović

Publication date 16 May 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3294

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityspin foam modelvertex spins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We show that the EPRL/FK spin foam model of quantum gravity has an absolutely convergent partition function if the vertex amplitude is divided by an appropriate power $p$ of the product of dimensions of the vertex spins. This power is independent of the spin foam 2-complex and we find that $p>2$ insures the convergence of the state sum. Determining the convergence of the state sum for the values $0leple2$ requires the knowledge of the large-spin asymptotics of the vertex amplitude in the cases when some of the vertex spins are large and other are small.

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