3d quantum gravity: coarse-graining and q-deformation

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0535-0zbMATH Open1366.83023arXiv1610.02716OpenAlexW3122060162MaRDI QIDQ529610FDOQ529610

Authors: Etera R. Livine 

Publication date: 19 May 2017

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Ponzano-Regge state-sum model provides a quantization of 3d gravity as a spin foam, providing a quantum amplitude to each 3d triangulation defined in terms of the 6j-symbol (from the spin-recoupling theory of SU(2) representations). In this context, the invariance of the 6j-symbol under 4-1 Pachner moves, mathematically defined by the Biedenharn-Elliot identity, can be understood as the invariance of the Ponzano-Regge model under coarse-graining or equivalently as the invariance of the amplitudes under the Hamiltonian constraints. Here we look at length and volume insertions in the Biedenharn-Elliot identity for the 6j-symbol, derived in some sense as higher derivatives of the original formula. This gives the behavior of these geometrical observables under coarse-graining. These new identities turn out to be related to the Biedenharn-Elliot identity for the q-deformed 6j-symbol and highlight that the q-deformation produces a cosmological constant term in the Hamiltonian constraints of 3d quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02716

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zbMATH Keywords

triangulationcosmological constantcoarse-grainingPachner moves\(q\)-deformation3d quantum gravityBiedenharn-Elliott identityHamiltonian constraintsPonzano-Regge state-sum modelspin foam

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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