Cosmological dynamics in spin-foam loop quantum cosmology: challenges and prospects

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA601DMaRDI QIDQ5348166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David A. Craig, Parampreet Singh

Publication date 14 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.08800

zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum gravityminisuperspace modelsloop quantum cosmologyspin foamscovariant and sum-over-histories quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We explore the structure of the spin foam-like vertex expansion in loop quantum cosmology and discuss properties of the corresponding amplitudes, with the aim of elucidating some of the expansion's useful properties and features. We find that the expansion is best suited for consideration of conceptual questions and for investigating short-time, highly quantum behavior. In order to study dynamics at cosmological scales, the expansion must be carried to very high order, limiting its direct utility as a calculational tool for such questions. Conversely, it is unclear that the expansion can be truncated at finite order in a controlled manner.

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