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so (4) Plebanski action and relativistic spin-foam model
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We study the correspondence between the `relativistic spin-foam' model introduced by Barrett, Crane and Baez and the so (4) Plebanski action. We argue that the so (4) Plebanski model is the continuum analogue of the relativistic spin-foam model. We prove that the so (4) Plebanski action possesses four phases, one of which is related to gravity and discuss the relation between this model and the model of Euclidean tetrad gravity. We also show that the so (4) Plebanski model possesses another natural discretization that can be associated with another, new, spin-foam model which appear to be the so (4) counterpart of the spin-foam model describing the self-dual formulation of gravity.
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“Its construction relies on methods from geometrical quantization [21, 23], but can also be related to the generalised Palatini action (with Immirzi parameter) through a generalised constrained BF theory [24, 25, 26].”
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- Authors
- Pietri, R. D., & Freidel, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Parma (IT)
- École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (FR)
- Venue
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 1999-01-01
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2187-2196
- ISSN
- 0264-9381 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6382
- OpenAlex
- W2071979448
- Cited by
- 182
- References
- 20
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- FWCI
- 5.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Classical and Quantum Gravity (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 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
- Barrett-Crane model, self-dual gravity, continuum limit, quantum gravity
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