Polyhedra in spacetime from null vectors

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作者
Neiman, Yasha [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Penn State, Inst Gravitat & Cosmos, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[2] Penn State, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
关键词
intertwiners; spinfoams; polyhedra; RELATIVISTIC SPIN NETWORKS; QUANTUM-GRAVITY; GENERAL-RELATIVITY; 10J SYMBOLS; ASYMPTOTICS;
D O I
10.1088/0264-9381/31/1/015011
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We consider convex spacelike polyhedra oriented in the Minkowski space. These are the classical analogues of spinfoam intertwiners. We point out a parametrization of these shapes using null face normals, with no constraints or redundancies. Our construction is dimension-independent. In 3+1d, it provides the spacetime picture behind a well-known property of the loop quantum gravity intertwiner space in spinor form, namely that the closure constraint is always satisfied after some SL(2, C) rotation. As a simple application of our variables, we incorporate them in a 4-simplex action that reproduces the large-spin behavior of the Barrett-Crane vertex amplitude.
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