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An Introduction to Spin Foam Models of BF Theory and Quantum Gravity
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“The Ponzano-Regge and Turaev-Viro models are examples of “spin foam” models [35, 222], that is, a model based on simplicial complexes with faces, edges, and vertices labeled by group representations and intertwiners.”
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“The theory has no local excitations: all solutions of the equations of motion are locally related by gauge transformations.”
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“The recent spin-foam models of Barrett-Crane [8], Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine [6] and FreidelKrasnov [15] fall into a common scheme.”
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- Authors
- Baez, J. C.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- Corresponding author
- Baez, John C.
- ORCID
- Baez, John C.
- Venue
- Lecture Notes in Physics
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 25-93
- ISSN
- 0075-8450 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1813946704
- Cited by
- 464
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 103.17
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Lecture notes in physics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Keywords
- spin foam models, BF theory, loop quantum gravity, spin networks, quantum geometry, quantum gravity, transition amplitudes, intertwining operators, representation
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