5 papers
Causal structure and light-conical singularities in Lorentzian simplicial quantum gravity
Bianca Dittrich, José Padua-Argüelles
The definition of a Lorentzian gravitational path integral requires specifying which causal struc- tures are admitted off shell. Of particular importance are light-conical singular…
Non-Perturbative -matrix Renormalization
Laurent Freidel, José Padua-Argüelles, Susanne Schander +1
We propose a renormalization group flow equation for a functional that generates -matrix elements and which captures similarities to the well-known Wetterich and Polchinski equa…
De Sitter horizon entropy from a simplicial Lorentzian path integral
Bianca Dittrich, Ted Jacobson, José Padua-Argüelles
The dimension of the Hilbert space of a quantum gravitational system can be written formally as a path integral partition function over Lorentzian metrics. We implement this in a 2…
Lorentzian quantum cosmology from effective spin foams
Bianca Dittrich, José Padua-Argüelles
Effective spin foams provide the computationally most efficient spin foam models yet and are therefore ideally suited for applications e.g. to quantum cosmology. We provide here th…
Twisted geometries are area-metric geometries
Bianca Dittrich, José Padua-Argüelles
The quantum geometry arising in Loop Quantum Gravity has been known to semi-classically lead to generalizations of length-geometries. There have been several attempts to interpret…