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量子引力的自旋泡沫模型与半经典极限

Spin Foam Models for Quantum Gravity and semi-classical limit

Maité Dupuis

摘要:

自旋泡沫框架是量子引力正则化路径积分的一个建议。自旋泡沫定义了量子时空结构,描述了从圈量子引力(LQG)导出的量子几何的自旋网络状态在时间上的演化。这种协变方法的构建是基于广义相对论作为拓扑理论的公式化加上引入局部自由度的所谓简单性约束。简单性约束是将非物理拓扑理论转化为四维引力的关键。在这篇博士论文中,提出了一种利用谐振子在四维欧氏引力中施加简单性约束的方法,并给出了新的相干态和约束的解。此外,量子引力的自洽自旋泡沫模型必须与LQG相关联,并且必须具有正确的半经典极限。给出了LQG的自旋网络态与自旋泡沫模型的边界态之间的显式映射,并将正则方法和协变方法结合起来。最后,介绍了计算三维量子引力跃迁振幅的半经典渐近表达式和从自旋泡沫模型中提取半经典信息的新技术。基于近似方法和自旋泡沫振幅上的递归关系的使用上进行了显式计算。这些结果对于推导引力场动力学的量子修正是有意义的。

英文摘要:

The spinfoam framework is a proposal for a regularized path integral for quantum gravity. Spinfoams define quantum space-time structures describing the evolution in time of the spin network states for quantum geometry derived from Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). The construction of this covariant approach is based on the formulation of General Relativity as a topological theory plus the so-called simplicity constraints which introduce local degrees of freedom. The simplicity constraints are essential in turning the non-physical topological theory into 4d gravity. In this PhD manuscript, an original way to impose the simplicity constraints in 4d Euclidean gravity using harmonic oscillators is proposed and new coherent states, solutions of the constraints, are given. Moreover, a consistent spinfoam model for quantum gravity has to be connected to LQG and must have the right semi-classical limit. An explicit map between the spin network states of LQG and the boundary states of spinfoam models is given connecting the canonical and the covariant approaches. Finally, new techniques to compute semiclassical asymptotic expressions for the transition amplitudes of 3d quantum gravity and to extract semi-classical information from a spinfoam model are introduced. Explicit computations based on approximation methods and on the use of recurrence relations on spinfoam amplitudes have been performed. The results are relevant to derive quantum corrections to the dynamics of the gravitational field.

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