Quantum Gravity as a Broken Symmetry Phase of a BF Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-12-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We explain how General Relativity with a cosmological constant arises as a broken symmetry phase of a BF theory. In particular we show how to treat de Sitter and anti-de Sitter cases simultaneously. This is then used to formulate a quantisation of General Relativity through a spin foam perturbation theory. We then briefly discuss how to calculate the effective action in this quantization procedure.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0610194,
title = {Quantum Gravity as a Broken Symmetry Phase of a BF Theory},
author = {Aleksandar Mikovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0610194},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
This is a contribution to the Proc. of the O'Raifeartaigh Symposium on Non-Perturbative and Symmetry Methods in Field Theory (June 2006, Budapest, Hungary), published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/