Twistor networks and covariant twisted geometries

Etera R. Livine, Simone Speziale, and Johannes Tambornino
Phys. Rev. D 85, 064002 – Published 2 March 2012

Abstract

We study the symplectic reduction of the phase space of two twistors to the cotangent bundle of the Lorentz group. We provide expressions for the Lorentz generators and group elements in terms of the spinors defining the twistors. We use this to define twistor networks as a graph carrying the phase space of two twistors on each edge. We also introduce simple twistor networks, which provide a classical version of the simple projected spin networks living on the boundary Hilbert space of Engle, Pereira, Rovelli, Livine and Freidel, Krasnov spin foam models. Finally, we give an expression for the Haar measure in terms of spinors.

  • Received 9 August 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.064002

© 2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Etera R. Livine1,2, Simone Speziale3, and Johannes Tambornino1

  • 1Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5672, 46 Allée d’Italie, Lyon 69007, France
  • 2Perimeter Institute, 31 Caroline St N, Waterloo ON, Canada N2L 2Y5
  • 3Centre de Physique Théorique*, CNRS-Luminy Case 907, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France

  • *Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 6207) du CNRS et des Universites Aix-Marseille I, Aix-Marseille II et du Sud Toulon-Var. Laboratoire affilié à la FRUMAM (FR 2291).

See Also

Twisted geometries: A geometric parametrization of SU(2) phase space

Laurent Freidel and Simone Speziale
Phys. Rev. D 82, 084040 (2010)

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Vol. 85, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2012

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