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Integrability for Relativistic Spin Networks | | John C. Baez
; John W. Barrett
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27 Dec 2000 | | Journal: | Class.Quant.Grav. 18 (2001) 4683-4700 | | Subject: | gr-qc | | Abstract: | The evaluation of relativistic spin networks plays a fundamental role in the Barrett-Crane state sum model of Lorentzian quantum gravity in 4 dimensions. A relativistic spin network is a graph labelled by unitary irreducible representations of the Lorentz group appearing in the direct integral decomposition of the space of L^2 functions on three-dimensional hyperbolic space. To `evaluate’ such a spin network we must do an integral; if this integral converges we say the spin network is `integrable’. Here we show that a large class of relativistic spin networks are integrable, including any whose underlying graph is the 4-simplex (the complete graph on 5 vertices). This proves a conjecture of Barrett and Crane, whose validity is required for the convergence of their state sum model. | | Source: | arXiv, gr-qc/0101107 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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