Loop gravity in terms of spinors
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-05-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We show that loop gravity can equally well be formulated in in terms of spinorial variables (instead of the group variables which are commonly used), which have recently been shown to provide a direct link between spin network states and discrete geometries. This results in a new, unitarily equivalent formulation of the theory on a generalized Bargmann space. Since integrals over the group are exchanged for straightforward integrals over the complex plane we expect this formalism to be useful to efficiently organize practical calculations.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1109.3572,
title = {Loop gravity in terms of spinors},
author = {Etera R. Livine and Johannes Tambornino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3572},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, based on a talk given at Loops '11, Madrid, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)