Classical setting and effective dynamics for spinfoam cosmology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/3/035006zbMATH Open1266.83191arXiv1111.2867OpenAlexW2057177932WikidataQ64007765 ScholiaQ64007765MaRDI QIDQ4920144FDOQ4920144

Mercedes Martín-Benito, Etera R. Livine

Publication date: 16 May 2013

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

Abstract: We explore how to extract effective dynamics from loop quantum gravity and spinfoams truncated to a finite fixed graph, with the hope of modeling symmetry-reduced gravitational systems. We particularize our study to the 2-vertex graph with N links. We describe the canonical data using the recent formulation of the phase space in terms of spinors, and implement a symmetry-reduction to the homogeneous and isotropic sector. From the canonical point of view, we construct a consistent Hamiltonian for the model and discuss its relation with Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologies. Then, we analyze the dynamics from the spinfoam approach. We compute exactly the transition amplitude between initial and final coherent spin networks states with support on the 2-vertex graph, for the choice of the simplest two-complex (with a single space-time vertex). The transition amplitude verifies an exact differential equation that agrees with the Hamiltonian constructed previously. Thus, in our simple setting we clarify the link between the canonical and the covariant formalisms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2867

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonianloop quantum gravityFriedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologiesspinfoam cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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