Path integral representation of Lorentzian spinfoam model, asymptotics and simplicial geometries

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/1/015009zbMATH Open1287.83023arXiv1304.5626OpenAlexW2020570048MaRDI QIDQ5405322FDOQ5405322

Authors: Muxin Han, Thomas Krajewski 

Publication date: 2 April 2014

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

Abstract: A new path integral representation of Lorentzian Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine (EPRL) spinfoam model is derived by employing the theory of unitary representation of SL(2,$mathbbC$). The path integral representation is taken as a starting point of semiclassical analysis. The relation between the spinfoam model and classical simplicial geometry is studied via the large spin asymptotic expansion of the spinfoam amplitude with all spins uniformaly large. More precisely in the large spin regime, there is an equivalence between the spinfoam critical configuration (with certain nondegeneracy assumption) and a classical Lorentzian simplicial geometry. Such an equivalence relation allows us to classify the spinfoam critical configurations by their geometrical interpretations, via two types of solution-generating maps. The equivalence between spinfoam critical configuration and simplical geometry also allows us to define the notion of globally oriented and time-oriented spinfoam critical configuration. It is shown that only at the globally oriented and time-oriented spinfoam critical configuration, the leading order contribution of spinfoam large spin asymptotics gives precisely an exponential of Lorentzian Regge action of General Relativity. At all other (unphysical) critical configurations, spinfoam large spin asymptotics modifies the Regge action at the leading order approximation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5626

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice models of gravitymodels of quantum gravitypath integralcovariant loop quantum gravityspinfoam model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) 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)

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