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