Spacetime as a Feynman diagram: The connection formulation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/1/308MaRDI QIDQ2704296zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael P. Reisenberger, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date 11 January 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0002095

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical topologyFeynman diagramgravitational degrees of freedomlattice spacetimespin-foam formalismtopological field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete geometry (52C99) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: Spin foam models are the path integral counterparts to loop quantized canonical theories. In the last few years several spin foam models of gravity have been proposed, most of which live on finite simplicial lattice spacetime. The lattice truncates the presumably infinite set of gravitational degrees of freedom down to a finite set. Models that can accomodate an infinite set of degrees of freedom and that are independent of any background simplicial structure, or indeed any a priori spacetime topology, can be obtained from the lattice models by summing them over all lattice spacetimes. Here we show that this sum can be realized as the sum over Feynman diagrams of a quantum field theory living on a suitable group manifold, with each Feynman diagram defining a particular lattice spacetime. We give an explicit formula for the action of the field theory corresponding to any given spin foam model in a wide class which includes several gravity models. Such a field theory was recently found for a particular gravity model [De Pietri et al, hep-th/9907154]. Our work generalizes this result as well as Boulatov's and Ooguri's models of three and four dimensional topological field theories, and ultimately the old matrix models of two dimensional systems with dynamical topology. A first version of our result has appeared in a companion paper [gr-qc�002083]: here we present a new and more detailed derivation based on the connection formulation of the spin foam models.

Review text

Spin-foam formalism is studied in order to improve the models of gravity living on finite simplicial lattice spacetime. One considers that the lattice truncates the presumably infinite set of gravitational degrees of freedom to a finite set. To obtain models that can accommodate an infinite set of degrees of freedom, the authors propose the summing over all lattice spacetimes. It is shown that this sum can be realized as the sum over Feynman diagrams of a quantum field theory living on a suitable group manifold. Explicit formula for the action of the field theory corresponding to any given spin-foam model in a wide class which includes several gravity models is given. The results obtained in the paper generalize those of the Boulatov-Ooguri models [\textit{D. V. Boulatov}, et al., Nucl. Phys. B 275, 641-686 (1986) and \textit{H. Ooguri}, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 7, 2799-2810 (1992)] of three- and four-dimensional topological field theories and also the old matrix models of two-dimensional systems with dynamical topology.

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