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Holonomy-flux spinfoam amplitude

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-11-21 v1

Abstract

We introduce a holomorphic representation for the Lorentzian EPRL spinfoam on arbitrary 2-complexes. The representation is obtained via the Ashtekar-Lewandowski-Marolf-Mour\~ao-Thiemann heat kernel coherent state transform. The new variables are classical holonomy-flux phase space variables (h,X)TSU(2)(h,X)\simeq \mathcal T^*SU(2) of Hamiltonian loop quantum gravity prescribing the holonomies of the Ashtekar connection A=Γ+γKA=\Gamma + \gamma K, and their conjugate gravitational fluxes. For small heat kernel `time' the spinfoam amplitude is peaked on classical space-time geometries, where at most countably many curvatures are allowed for non-zero Barbero-Immirzi parameter. We briefly comment on the possibility to use the alternative flipped classical limit.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1211.4807,
  title  = {Holonomy-flux spinfoam amplitude},
  author = {Claudio Perini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4807},
  year   = {2012}
}

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33 pages

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