Spin-foam fermions: PCT symmetry, Dirac determinant and correlation functions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/7/075007zbMATH Open1266.83080arXiv1101.3264OpenAlexW3101183152MaRDI QIDQ4920197FDOQ4920197

Carlo Rovelli, Muxin Han

Publication date: 16 May 2013

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

Abstract: We discuss fermion coupling in the framework of spinfoam quantum gravity. We analyze the gravity-fermion spinfoam model and its fermion correlation functions. We show that there is a spinfoam analog of PCT symmetry for the fermion fields on spinfoam model, where a PCT theorem is proved for spinfoam fermion correlation functions. We compute the determinant of the Dirac operator for the fermions, where two presentations of the Dirac determinant are given in terms of diagram expansions. We compute the fermion correlation functions and show that they can be given by Feynman diagrams on the spinfoams, where the Feynman propagators can be represented by a discretized path integral of a world-line action along the edges of the underlying 2-complex.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3264

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorFeynman diagramsspin-foam quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) 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)

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• \(PCT\), spin and statistics, and analytic wave front set
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