A note on the spinor construction of spin foam amplitudes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/9/095016MaRDI QIDQ4979699zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Immirzi

Publication date 19 June 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6942

zbMATH Keywords

spinorsspin foamloop quntum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: I discuss the use of spinors in the construction of spin-foam models, in particular the form of the closure and simplicity constraints for triangles that are space-like, i.e. with (area)${}^2=half{S}^{IJ}{S}_{IJ}>0$, regardless of whether they belong the tetrahedra with a space-like or time-like normal, emphasizing the role of the light-like 4-vector $$. In the quantization of the model, with the representations of SL(2,$mathbbC$) acting on spaces of functions of light-like vectors, one may use the canonical basis of SU(2) representations, or the pseudobasis limited to the discrete representations of SU(1,1); in alternative it is proposed to use instead a basis of eigenstates of $(L_3,K_3)$, which might give matrix elements and vertex functions with the same classical limit. A detailed example of a small triangulation is presented, which among other things indicates, on the basis of a classical calculation, that it would be impractical to limit oneself to tetrahedra with time-like normals.

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