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I discuss how to impose causality on spin-foam models, separating forward and backward propagation, turning a given triangulation to a 'causal set', and giving asymptotically the exponential of the Regge action, not a cosine. I show the equivalence of the prescriptions which have been proposed to achieve this.
Giorgio Immirzi
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Spin foams and noncommutative geometry [PDF]
We extend the formalism of embedded spin networks and spin foams to include topological data that encode the underlying three-manifold or four-manifold as a branched cover. These data are expressed as monodromies, in a way similar to the encoding of the gravitational field via holonomies.
Denicola, Domenic+2 more
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Invited review: The new spin foam models and quantum gravity [PDF]
In this article, we give a systematic definition of the recently introduced spin foam models for four-dimensional quantum gravity, reviewing the main results on their semiclassical limit on fixed discretizations.
Alejandro Perez
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Coarse Graining Spin Foam Quantum Gravity—A Review
In quantum gravity, we envision renormalization as the key tool for bridging the gap between microscopic models and observable scales. For spin foam quantum gravity, which is defined on a discretization akin to lattice gauge theories, the goal is to ...
Sebastian Steinhaus
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Spin foam quantization and anomalies [PDF]
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Bojowald, Martin, Perez, Alejandro
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Towards a phase diagram for spin foams [PDF]
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Clement Delcamp, Bianca Dittrich
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Spin Foam Models from the Tetrad Integration [PDF]
We describe a class of spin foam models of four-dimensional quantum gravity which is based on the integration of the tetrad one-forms in the path integral for the Palatini action of General Relativity.
Mikovic, A.
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The Hessian in Spin Foam Models [PDF]
Abstract We fill one of the remaining gaps in the asymptotic analysis of the vertex amplitudes of the Engle–Pereira–Rovelli–Livine (EPRL) spin foam models: We show that the Hessian is nondegenerate for the stationary points that corresponds to geometric nondegenerate 4 simplices. Our analysis covers the case when all faces are spacelike.
Wojciech Kamiński, Hanno Sahlmann
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Diffeomorphisms and spin foam models [PDF]
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David Louapre+2 more
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so(4) Plebanski Action and Relativistic Spin Foam Model [PDF]
In this note we study the correspondence between the ``relativistic spin foam'' model introduced by Barrett, Crane and Baez and the so(4) Plebanski action.
Baez J+16 more
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