Observables in 3d spinfoam quantum gravity with fermions

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-1107-0zbMATH Open1215.83031arXiv1003.1847OpenAlexW1977675015MaRDI QIDQ540499FDOQ540499

Winston J. Fairbairn, Richard J. Dowdall

Publication date: 3 June 2011

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study expectation values of observables in three-dimensional spinfoam quantum gravity coupled to Dirac fermions. We revisit the model introduced by one of the authors and extend it to the case of massless fermionic fields. We introduce observables, analyse their symmetries and the corresponding proper gauge fixing. The Berezin integral over the fermionic fields is performed and the fermionic observables are expanded in open paths and closed loops associated to pure quantum gravity observables. We obtain the vertex amplitudes for gauge-invariant observables, while the expectation values of gauge-variant observables, such as the fermion propagator, are given by the evaluation of particular spin networks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1847

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityspin networksloop quantum gravityfermionsspin foammatter coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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