Integrability for Relativistic Spin Networks

نویسندگان

  • JOHN C. BAEZ
  • JOHN W. BARRETT
چکیده

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 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.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003