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Towards the Turaev-Viro amplitudes from a Hamiltonian constraint

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-12-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

3D Loop Quantum Gravity with a vanishing cosmological constant can be related to the quantization of the SU(2)\textrm{SU}(2) BF theory discretized on a lattice. At the classical level, this discrete model characterizes discrete flat geometries and its phase space is built from TSU(2)T^\ast \textrm{SU}(2). In a recent paper \cite{HyperbolicPhaseSpace}, this discrete model was deformed using the Poisson-Lie group formalism and was shown to characterize discrete hyperbolic geometries while being still topological. Hence, it is a good candidate to describe the discretization of SU(2)\textrm{SU}(2) BF theory with a (negative) cosmological constant. We proceed here to the quantization of this model. At the kinematical level, the Hilbert space is spanned by spin networks built on Uq(su(2))\mathcal{U}_{q}(\mathfrak{su}(2)) (with qq real). In particular, the quantization of the discretized Gauss constraint leads naturally to Uq(su(2))\mathcal{U}_{q}(\mathfrak{su}(2)) intertwiners. We also quantize the Hamiltonian constraint on a face of degree 3 and show that physical states are proportional to the quantum 6j-symbol. This suggests that the Turaev-Viro amplitude with qq real is a solution of the quantum Hamiltonian. This model is therefore a natural candidate to describe 3D loop quantum gravity with a (negative) cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.1403.7121,
  title  = {Towards the Turaev-Viro amplitudes from a Hamiltonian constraint},
  author = {Valentin Bonzom and Maité Dupuis and Florian Girelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.7121},
  year   = {2014}
}

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24 pages, 6 figures