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Barrett-Crane自旋泡沫模型的拉格朗日方法

A Lagrangian approach to the Barrett-Crane spin foam model

Valentin Bonzom, Etera R. Livine

摘要:

我们提供了一个Barrett-Crane自旋泡沫模型的量子引力与离散的作用原理,包括在通常的BF项与离散的简单性约束,在连续体把拓扑BF理论引力。背景与文献中通常考虑的相同:时空被切割成4-单形,连接描述了如何将这些4-单形粘合在一起,作用量是依赖于每个三角形周围的完整性的项的总和。我们施加离散化的简单性约束不相交的四面体,我们展示了如何拉格朗日乘子的简单性约束扭曲的平行运输和相邻的4-单纯之间的相关性。然后,我们使用$\SU(2)$平面波之间的非对易积构造离散化BF作用量。我们展示了这是如何自然地导致巴雷特起重机模型。这澄清了模型的几何意义。我们讨论了这个作用原理的自然推广和它导致的自旋泡沫模型。我们展示了如何最近推出的spinfoam融合系数出现了一个非平凡的措施。特别是,我们通过削弱离散化简单性约束来恢复Engle-Pereira-Rovelli spinfoam模型。最后,我们确定Plebanski的理论的两个部门,我们给Barrett-Crane模型在非几何部门的模拟。

英文摘要:

We provide the Barrett-Crane spin foam model for quantum gravity with a discrete action principle, consisting in the usual BF term with discretized simplicity constraints which in the continuum turn topological BF theory into gravity. The setting is the same as usually considered in the literature: space-time is cut into 4-simplices, the connection describes how to glue these 4-simplices together and the action is a sum of terms depending on the holonomies around each triangle. We impose the discretized simplicity constraints on disjoint tetrahedra and we show how the Lagrange multipliers for the simplicity constraints distort the parallel transport and the correlations between neighbouring 4-simplices. We then construct the discretized BF action using a non-commutative product between $\SU(2)$ plane waves. We show how this naturally leads to the Barrett-Crane model. This clears up the geometrical meaning of the model. We discuss the natural generalization of this action principle and the spin foam models it leads to. We show how the recently introduced spinfoam fusion coefficients emerge with a non-trivial measure. In particular, we recover the Engle-Pereira-Rovelli spinfoam model by weakening the discretized simplicity constraints. Finally, we identify the two sectors of Plebanski's theory and we give the analog of the Barrett-Crane model in the non-geometric sector.

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