Open AccessSpinfoams: summing or refining?
Author(s) -
Matteo Smerlak
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/360/1/012053
Subject(s) - refining (metallurgy) , limit (mathematics) , theoretical physics , physics , classical mechanics , calculus (dental) , mathematics , chemistry , mathematical analysis , medicine , dentistry
5 pagesInternational audienceWe consider two alternative prescriptions for the continuum limit in spinfoam gravity – summing over all foams vs. refining a single foam –, and argue that, under certain conditions, they are the same