Simple Spin Networks as Feynman Graphs

Abstract

We show how spin networks can be described and evaluated as Feynman integrals over an internal space. This description can, in particular, be applied to the so-called simple SO(D) spin networks that are of importance for higher-dimensional generalizations of loop quantum gravity. As an illustration of the power of the new formalism, we use it to obtain the asymptotics of an amplitude for the D-simplex and show that its oscillatory part is given by the Regge action.

13 pages, no figures; few typos corrected

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• Relativistic spin networks and quantum gravity
• Spin Foam Models
• Spin Foam Models and the Classical Action Principle
• BF Description of Higher-Dimensional Gravity Theories

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