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在量子引力中,求和就是精炼

In quantum gravity, summing is refining

Carlo Rovelli, Matteo Smerlak

摘要:

在微扰QED中,近似通过求和更多的费曼图来改进;在非微扰QCD中,通过细化晶格。这里我们观察到,在量子引力中,这两个过程很可能是相同的。我们概述了自旋泡沫量子引力的组合结构,定义了连续极限,并表明,在一般条件下,精炼泡沫是相同的求和。的条件承担的spinfoam振幅的圆柱形的一致性和适当的组合因素的存在下,有关的实施的不变性。直觉上,格点就是空间的点:它们本身就是引力场的量子,因此格点离散化也是量子的费曼历史。

英文摘要:

In perturbative QED, the approximation is improved by summing more Feynman graphs; in non-perturbative QCD, by refining the lattice. Here we observe that in quantum gravity the two procedures may well be the same. We outline the combinatorial structure of spinfoam quantum gravity, define the continuum limit, and show that under general conditions refining foams is the same as summing over them. The conditions bear on the cylindrical consistency of the spinfoam amplitudes and on the presence of appropriate combinatorial factors, related to the implementation of diffeomorphisms invariance. Intuitively, the sites of the lattice are points of space: these are themselves quanta of the gravitational field, and thus a lattice discretization is also a Feynman history of quanta.

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