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The hessian in spin foam models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

We fill one of the remaining gaps in the asymptotic analysis of the vertex amplitudes of the Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine (EPRL) spin foam models: We show that the hessian is nondegenerate for the stationary points that corresponds to geometric nondegenerate 44 simplices. Our analysis covers the case when all faces are spacelike.

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@article{arxiv.1906.05258,
  title  = {The hessian in spin foam models},
  author = {Wojciech Kaminski and Hanno Sahlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05258},
  year   = {2020}
}

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30 pages

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