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Fermions in three-dimensional spinfoam quantum gravity

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We study the coupling of massive fermions to the quantum mechanical dynamics of spacetime emerging from the spinfoam approach in three dimensions. We first recall the classical theory before constructing a spinfoam model of quantum gravity coupled to spinors. The technique used is based on a finite expansion in inverse fermion masses leading to the computation of the vacuum to vacuum transition amplitude of the theory. The path integral is derived as a sum over closed fermionic loops wrapping around the spinfoam. The effects of quantum torsion are realised as a modification of the intertwining operators assigned to the edges of the two-complex, in accordance with loop quantum gravity. The creation of non-trivial curvature is modelled by a modification of the pure gravity vertex amplitudes. The appendix contains a review of the geometrical and algebraic structures underlying the classical coupling of fermions to three dimensional gravity.
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hal-00092854 , version 1 (12-09-2006)
hal-00092854 , version 2 (22-12-2006)

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Winston Fairbairn. Fermions in three-dimensional spinfoam quantum gravity. General Relativity and Gravitation, 2007, 39, pp.427-476. ⟨hal-00092854v2⟩
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