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单纯流形上Spinfoam振幅的渐近性:Lorentz理论

Asymptotics of Spinfoam Amplitude on Simplicial Manifold: Lorentzian Theory

Muxin Han, Mingyi Zhang

摘要:

本文研究了具有任意数目单形的四维单形复形上洛伦兹EPRL自旋泡沫振幅的大j渐近性质。自旋泡沫振幅的渐近性由临界构型决定。在这里,我们表明,在一般情况下,给定的临界配置,存在一个分区的单纯复杂成三种类型的区域R_{Nondeg},R_{Deg-A},R_{Deg-B},其中三个区域是单纯子复合物的边界。在不同类型的区域中,临界组态意味着不同类型的几何,即(1)限制在R_{Nondeg} $ implies a nondegenerate discrete Lorentzian geometry, (2) the critical configuration restricted into R_{Deg-A}$中的临界组态是退化的A型几何,但意味着R_{Deg-A}上的非退化离散欧几里得几何;(3)限制在R_{Deg-B}中的临界组态是退化的B型几何,意味着R_{Deg-B}上的向量几何.利用临界构型,我们进一步将区域R_{Nondeg}和R_{Deg-A}根据它们的洛伦兹/欧几里德定向的4-单形体积V_4(v)细分为子复形(有边界),使得sgn(V_4(v))在每个子复形上是常数符号。然后在每个子复合体中,临界组态处的自旋泡沫振幅分别在R_{Nondeg}或R_{Deg-A}上给出洛伦兹或欧几里得签名的Regge作用量。这里再现的Regge作用包含定向4-单形体积的符号因子sgn(V_4(v))。因此,这里再现的Regge作用量可以看作是具有壳上连接的离散化Palatini作用量。最后给出了自旋泡沫振幅的渐近公式,它是在所有可能的临界构型下估计的振幅之和,这些振幅是与不同类型的几何形状相关联的振幅的乘积。

英文摘要:

The present paper studies the large-j asymptotics of the Lorentzian EPRL spinfoam amplitude on a 4d simplicial complex with an arbitrary number of simplices. The asymptotics of the spinfoam amplitude is determined by the critical configurations. Here we show that, given a critical configuration in general, there exists a partition of the simplicial complex into three type of regions R_{Nondeg}, R_{Deg-A}, R_{Deg-B}, where the three regions are simplicial sub-complexes with boundaries. The critical configuration implies different types of geometries in different types of regions, i.e. (1) the critical configuration restricted into R_{Nondeg}$ implies a nondegenerate discrete Lorentzian geometry, (2) the critical configuration restricted into R_{Deg-A}$ is degenerate of type-A in our definition of degeneracy, but implies a nondegenerate discrete Euclidean geometry on R_{Deg-A}, (3) the critical configuration restricted into R_{Deg-B} is degenerate of type-B, and implies a vector geometry on R_{Deg-B}. With the critical configuration, we further make a subdivision of the regions R_{Nondeg} and R_{Deg-A} into sub-complexes (with boundary) according to their Lorentzian/Euclidean oriented 4-simplex volume V_4(v), such that sgn(V_4(v)) is a constant sign on each sub-complex. Then in the each sub-complex, the spinfoam amplitude at the critical configuration gives the Regge action in Lorentzian or Euclidean signature respectively on R_{Nondeg} or R_{Deg-A}. The Regge action reproduced here contains a sign factor sgn(V_4(v)) of the oriented 4-simplex volume. Therefore the Regge action reproduced here can be viewed a discretized Palatini action with on-shell connection. Finally the asymptotic formula of the spinfoam amplitude is given by a sum of the amplitudes evaluated at all possible critical configurations, which are the products of the amplitudes associated to different type of geometries.

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