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Intertwiner dynamics in the flipped vertex
Emanuele Alesci, Eugenio Bianchi, Elena Magliaro +1
We continue the semiclassical analysis, started in a previous paper, of the intertwiner sector of the flipped vertex spinfoam model. We use independently both a semi-analytical and…
A Note on B-observables in Ponzano-Regge 3d Quantum Gravity
Etera R. Livine, James P. Ryan
We study the insertion and value of metric observables in the (discrete) path integral formulation of the Ponzano-Regge spinfoam model for 3d quantum gravity. In particular, we dis…
Spin-Foam Models and the Physical Scalar Product
Emanuele Alesci, Karim Noui, Francesco Sardelli
This paper aims at clarifying the link between Loop Quantum Gravity and Spin-Foam models in four dimensions. Starting from the canonical framework, we construct an operator P actin…
The entropic boundary law in BF theory
Etera R. Livine, Daniel R. Terno
We compute the entropy of a closed bounded region of space for pure 3d Riemannian gravity formulated as a topological BF theory for the gauge group SU(2) and show its holographic b…
How hot are expanding universes ?
Nathaniel Obadia
A way to address the conundrum of Quantum Gravity is to illustrate the potentially fundamental interplay between quantum field theory, curved space-times physics and thermodynamics…
Towards the graviton from spinfoams: the complete perturbative expansion of the 3d toy model
Valentin Bonzom, Etera R. Livine, Matteo Smerlak +1
We consider an exact expression for the 6j-symbol for the isosceles tetrahedron, involving integrals over SU(2), and use it to write the two-point function of 3d gravity on a singl…