School of Astronomy (SoA) - Weekly Seminar

Dimensional reduction of 4d spin foam model or adding non-gravitational fields to 3d spin foam model

By:  Somayeh Fani (Alzahra Univ. )


 

Wednesday / 29-June-2011 / 8-Tir-1390/ 2:00 PM

 

IPM Larak Building-Seminar Room
Address:
Larak Garden, opposite Araj, Artesh Highway,Tehran, Iran
E-mail:
astro(at)ipm.ir

abstract:

In language of loop quantum gravity, 4d and 3d space-time can be constructed by 4d  and 3d spinfoam models respectively. We consider a Kaluza-Klein like approach for a 4d spin foam model. We apply this approach to a 4d TOCY model based on group field theory; and using the Peter-Weyl expansion of the gravitational field then we reconstruct at once a 3d simplicial complex representing spacetime and its geometry; like in the Ponzano-Regge formulation of pure 3d quantum gravity plus the Feynman graph for matter like fields. Thus We find a mechanism for generation of matter and new dimensions from pure gravity.

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