Spin Foam Perturbation Theory

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1999-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910050v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

16 pages LaTeX, 2 encapsulated Postscript figures

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We study perturbation theory for spin foam models on triangulated manifolds. Starting with any model of this sort, we consider an arbitrary perturbation of the vertex amplitudes, and write the evolution operators of the perturbed model as convergent power series in the coupling constant governing the perturbation. The terms in the power series can be efficiently computed when the unperturbed model is a topological quantum field theory. Moreover, in this case we can explicitly sum the whole power series in the limit where the number of top-dimensional simplices goes to infinity while the coupling constant is suitably renormalized. This `dilute gas limit' gives spin foam models that are triangulation-independent but not topological quantum field theories. However, we show that models of this sort are rather trivial except in dimension 2.

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