On the causal Barrett--Crane model: measure, coupling constant, Wick rotation, symmetries and observables

Details On the causal Barrett--Crane model: measure, coupling constant, Wick rotation, symmetries and observables On the causal Barrett--Crane model: measure, coupling constant, Wick rotation, symmetries and observables

2002-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0212049v1

Phys.Rev.D67:064022,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

22 pages, LaTeX 2e, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.064022

We discuss various features and details of two versions of the Barrett-Crane spin foam model of quantum gravity, first of the Spin(4)-symmetric Riemannian model and second of the SL(2,C)-symmetric Lorentzian version in which all tetrahedra are space-like. Recently, Livine and Oriti proposed to introduce a causal structure into the Lorentzian Barrett--Crane model from which one can construct a path integral that corresponds to the causal (Feynman) propagator. We show how to obtain convergent integrals for the 10j-symbols and how a dimensionless constant can be introduced into the model. We propose a `Wick rotation' which turns the rapidly oscillating complex amplitudes of the Feynman path integral into positive real and bounded weights. This construction does not yet have the status of a theorem, but it can be used as an alternative definition of the propagator and makes the causal model accessible by standard numerical simulation algorithms. In addition, we identify the local symmetries of the models and show how their four-simplex amplitudes can be re-expressed in terms of the ordinary relativistic 10j-symbols. Finally, motivated by possible numerical simulations, we express the matrix elements that are defined by the model, in terms of the continuous connection variables and determine the most general observable in the connection picture. Everything is done on a fixed two-complex.

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