Self-Energy of the Lorentzian EPRL-FK Spin Foam Model of Quantum Gravity

Abstract

We calculate the most divergent contribution to the non-degenerate sector of the self-energy (or "melonic") graph in the context of the Lorentzian EPRL-FK Spin Foam model of Quantum Gravity. We find that such a contribution is logarithmically divergent in the cut-off over the SU(2)-representation spins when one chooses the face amplitude guaranteeing the face-splitting invariance of the foam.We also find that the dependence on the boundary data is different from that of the bare propagator. This fact has its origin in the non-commutativity of the EPRL-FK Y-map with the projector onto SL(2,C)-invariant states. In the course of the paper, we discuss in detail the approximations used during the calculations, its geometrical interpretation as well as the physical consequences of our result.

58 pages, 8 figures. Corrections about the degenerate sector (suppression of a paragraph, introduction of a new appendix), plus minor corrections and improvements in the introduction and in the conclusions

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