Deformed Spinor Networks for Loop Gravity: Towards Hyperbolic Twisted Geometries
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-03-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
In the context of a canonical quantization of general relativity, one can deform the loop gravity phase space on a graph by replacing the T*SU(2) phase space attached to each edge by SL(2,C) seen as a phase space. This deformation is supposed to encode the presence of a non-zero cosmological constant. Here we show how to parametrize this phase space in terms of spinor variables, thus obtaining deformed spinor networks for loop gravity, with a deformed action of the gauge group SU(2) at the vertices. These are to be formally interpreted as the generalization of loop gravity twisted geometries to a hyperbolic curvature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1403.7482,
title = {Deformed Spinor Networks for Loop Gravity: Towards Hyperbolic Twisted Geometries},
author = {Maité Dupuis and Florian Girelli and Etera R. Livine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.7482},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages, 4 figures