Ponzano-Regge model revisited II: Equivalence with Chern-Simons

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2004-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410141v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

27 + 23 pages, many figures

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We provide a mathematical definition of the gauge fixed Ponzano-Regge model showing that it gives a measure on the space of flat connections whose volume is well defined. We then show that the Ponzano-Regge model can be equivalently expressed as Reshetikhin-Turaev evaluation of a colored chain mail link based on D(SU(2)): a non compact quantum group being the Drinfeld double of SU(2) and a deformation of the Poincare algebra. This proves the equivalence between spin foam quantization and Chern-Simons quantization of three dimensional gravity without cosmological constant. We extend this correspondence to the computation of expectation value of physical observables and insertion of particles.

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