An OSp extension of the canonical tensor model

作者：Narain Gaurav^*; Sasakura Naoki

来源：Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2015, 2015(12): 123A05.

DOI：10.1093/ptep/ptv169

Tensor models are generalizations of matrix models, and are studied as discrete models of quantum gravity for arbitrary dimensions. Among them, the canonical tensor model (CTM) is a rank-three tensor model formulated as a totally constrained system with a number of first-class constraints, which have a similar algebraic structure to the constraints of the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formalism of general relativity. In this paper, we formulate a super-extension of CTM as an attempt to incorporate fermionic degrees of freedom. The kinematical symmetry group is extended from O(N) to OSp(N, (N) over tilde), and the constraints are constructed so that they form a first-class-constraint super-Poisson algebra. This is a straightforward super-extension, and the constraints and their algebraic structure are formally unchanged from the purely bosonic case, except for the additional signs associated with the fermionic degrees of freedom. However, this extension contains negative norm states in the quantized case, and requires some future improvements as quantum gravity with fermions. On the other hand, various results obtained so far for the purely bosonic case should have parallels in this straightforward super-extension, such as the exact physical wave functions and the connection to randomly connected tensor networks.

• 出版日期2015-12