3D spinfoam quantum gravity: matter as a phase of the group field theory

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/24/20/021zbMATH Open1126.83303arXivgr-qc/0702125OpenAlexW2078670594WikidataQ64007811 ScholiaQ64007811MaRDI QIDQ5422005FDOQ5422005

Etera R. Livine, Winston J. Fairbairn

Publication date: 25 October 2007

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

Abstract: An effective field theory for matter coupled to three-dimensional quantum gravity was recently derived in the context of spinfoam models in hep-th/0512113. In this paper, we show how this relates to group field theories and generalized matrix models. In the first part, we realize that the effective field theory can be recasted as a matrix model where couplings between matrices of different sizes can occur. In a second part, we provide a family of classical solutions to the three-dimensional group field theory. By studying perturbations around these solutions, we generate the dynamics of the effective field theory. We identify a particular case which leads to the action of hep-th/0512113 for a massive field living in a flat non-commutative space-time. The most general solutions lead to field theories with non-linear redefinitions of the momentum which we propose to interpret as living on curved space-times. We conclude by discussing the possible extension to four-dimensional spinfoam models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0702125

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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