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On the spinfoam expansion in cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-10-18 v2

Abstract

We consider the technique introduced in a recent work by Ashtekar, Campiglia and Henderson, which generate a spinfoam-like sum from a Hamiltonian theory. We study the possibility of using it for finding the generalized projector of a constraint on physical states, without first deparametrising the system. We illustrate this technique in the context of a very simple example. We discuss the infinities that appear in the calculation, and argue that they can be appropriately controlled. We apply these ideas to write a spinfoam expansion for the "dipole cosmology".

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@article{arxiv.0911.3097,
  title  = {On the spinfoam expansion in cosmology},
  author = {Carlo Rovelli and Francesca Vidotto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3097},
  year   = {2011}
}

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6 pages (typos corrected)