Poincaré-Plebański formulation of GR and dual simplicity constraints

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAE9B7MaRDI QIDQ5218340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vadim Belov

Publication date 2 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03182

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac constrained Hamiltonian analysisgauge symmetriessimplicity constraintsspin foamstopological BF theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We revise the classical continuum formulation behind the Spin Foam approach to the quantization of gravity. Based on the recent applications of the current EPRL-FK model beyond triangulations, we identify the tension with the implementation of the 'volume' part of simplicity constraints, required for the passage from the topological BF theory to gravity. The crucial role, played by 4d normals in the linear version of constraints, necessitates the extension of the configuration space, and we argue to switch from normal 3-forms directly to tetrads. The requirement of vanishing torsion leads to consider first an unconstrained extended Poincare BF theory, which we characterize fully both at the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian levels, paying special attention to its gauge symmetries. The simplicity constraints are introduced naturally, in the spirit of Plebanski formulation, and we give their tetradic version, dual to that of using 3-forms. This brings us much closer to the geometric content of General Relativity.

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