Regularized Hamiltonians and Spinfoams
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-05-30 v1
Abstract
We review a recent proposal for the regularization of the scalar constraint of General Relativity in the context of LQG. The resulting constraint presents strengths and weaknesses compared to Thiemann's prescription. The main improvement is that it can generate the 1-4 Pachner moves and its matrix elements contain 15j Wigner symbols, it is therefore compatible with the spinfoam formalism: the drawback is that Thiemann anomaly free proof is spoiled because the nodes that the constraint creates have volume.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1110.6150,
title = {Regularized Hamiltonians and Spinfoams},
author = {Emanuele Alesci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6150},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, based on a talk given at Loops '11 in Madrid, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)