Spin foam quantization of SO(4) Plebański's action

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N5.A4zbMATH Open1012.83006arXivgr-qc/0203058MaRDI QIDQ700576FDOQ700576

Authors: D. Kharzeev 

Publication date: 22 October 2002

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The goal of this work is two-fold. In the first part of this paper we regard classical Plebanski's action as a BF action supplemented by constraints. We introduce a spin foam model for Riemannian general relativity by systematically implementing these constraints as restrictions on paths in the state-sum of the BF theory. The spin foam model obtained is precisely the Barrett-Crane model. This provides a clear-cut connection of the model with a simplicial action. In the second part of the paper we study the quantization of the effective action corresponding to the degenerate sectors of Plebanski's theory and obtain a very simple spin foam model. This model turns out to be precisely the one introduced by De Pietri et al. as an alternative to the one proposed by Barrett and Crane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203058

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zbMATH Keywords

constraintsspin foam modelfour-simplex configurationRiemannian general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

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