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Lorentzian spinfoam propagator

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-12-14 v2

Abstract

The two-point correlation function is calculated in the Lorentzian EPRL spinfoam model, and shown to match with the one in Regge calculus in a proper limit: large boundary spins, and small Barbero-Immirzi parameter, keeping the size of the quantum geometry finite and fixed. Compared to the Euclidean case, the definition of a Lorentzian boundary state involves a new feature: the notion of past- and future-pointing intertwiners. The semiclassical correlation function is obtained for a time-oriented semiclassical boundary state.

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@article{arxiv.1109.6538,
  title  = {Lorentzian spinfoam propagator},
  author = {Eugenio Bianchi and You Ding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6538},
  year   = {2012}
}

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13 pages, minor changes, references added

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