Tensorial structure of the LQG graviton propagator

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作者
Alesci, Emanuele [1 ,2 ]
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[1] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Fis, I-00146 Rome, EU, Italy
[2] Univ Mediterranee, Ctr Phys Theor Luminy, F-13288 Marseille, EU, France
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A | 2008年 / 23卷 / 08期
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10.1142/S0217751X0804007X
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O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
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070202 ;
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We review the construction of the tensorial structure of the graviton propagator in the context of loop quantum gravity and spinfoam formalism. The main result of this analysis is that applying the same strategy used to compute the diagonal terms, the Barrett-Crane vertex is unable to yield the correct propagator in the long distance limit. The problem is in the intertwiner-independence of the Barrett-Crane vertex. We also review the asymptotic behavior of an alternative vertex that is able to give the correct propagator.
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