The Plebanski sectors of the EPRL vertex

Details The Plebanski sectors of the EPRL vertex The Plebanski sectors of the EPRL vertex

2011-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/1107.0709v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

17 pages

Scientific paper

Modern spin-foam models of four dimensional gravity are based on a discrete version of the $Spin(4)$ Plebanski formulation. Beyond what is already in the literature, we clarify the meaning of different Plebanski sectors in this classical discrete model. We show that the linearized simplicity constraints used in the EPRL and FK models are not sufficient to impose a restriction to a single Plebanski sector, but rather, three Plebanski sectors are mixed. We propose this as the reason for certain extra `undesired' terms in the asymptotics of the EPRL vertex analyzed by Barrett et al. This explanation for the extra terms is new and different from that sometimes offered in the spin-foam literature thus far.

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