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On Spinfoam Models in Large Spin Regime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-11-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the semiclassical behavior of Lorentzian Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine (EPRL) spinfoam model, by taking into account the sum over spins in the large spin regime. We also employ the method of stationary phase analysis with parameters and the so called, almost-analytic machinery, in order to find the asymptotic behavior of the contributions from all possible large spin configurations in the spinfoam model. The spins contributing the sum are written as Jf=λjf{J}_f=\lambda {j}_f where \l\l is a large parameter resulting in an asymptotic expansion via stationary phase approximation. The analysis shows that at least for the simplicial Lorentzian geometries (as spinfoam critical configurations), they contribute the leading order approximation of spinfoam amplitude only when their deficit angles satisfy γΘfλ1/2\gamma{\Theta}_f\leq\lambda^{-1/2} mod 4πZ4\pi\mathbb{Z}. Our analysis results in a curvature expansion of the semiclassical low energy effective action from the spinfoam model, where the UV modifications of Einstein gravity appear as subleading high-curvature corrections.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5627,
  title  = {On Spinfoam Models in Large Spin Regime},
  author = {Muxin Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5627},
  year   = {2013}
}

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20 pages, no figure, presentation improved, published version

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