Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-02-27
Class.Quant.Grav.18:2827-2850,2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
28 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/18/14/313
We study the transition amplitudes in state-sum models of quantum gravity in D=2,3,4 spacetime dimensions by using the field theory over a Lie group formulation. By promoting the group theory Fourier modes into creation and annihilation operators we construct a Fock space for the quantum field theory whose Feynman diagrams give the transition amplitudes. By making products of the Fourier modes we construct operators and states representing the spin networks associated to triangulations of spatial boundaries of a triangulated spacetime manifold. The corresponding spin network amplitudes give the state-sum amplitudes for triangulated manifolds with boundaries. We also show that one can introduce a discrete time evolution operator, where the time is given by the number of D-simplices in the triangulation, or equivalently by the number of the vertices in the Feynman diagram. The corresponding transition amplitude is a finite sum of Feynman diagrams, and in this way one avoids the problem of infinite amplitudes caused by summing over all possible triangulations.
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