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“These rules generate surface-like excitations of the same kind we encounter in the more standard spin-foam model, but endow the foam with a notion of causality.”
From The Spin-Foam Approach to Quantum Gravity (2013) · cites this paper as [267]
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“Using the kinematical setting of LQG with the assumption of the existence of a micro-local (in the sense of Planck scale) causal structure, Markopoulou and Smolin define a general class of (causal) spin-foam models for gravity [267, 264] (see also [268]).”
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“The models are not related to any continuum action.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Markopoulou, F., & Smolin, L.
- Affiliations
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- ORCID
- Smolin, Lee
- Venue
- Nuclear Physics B
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1997-12
- Volume
- 508
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 409-430
- ISSN
- 0550-3213 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2122888037
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 13.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Nuclear Physics B (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (9514240)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Keywords
- quantum gravity, causal sets, spin networks, loop representation, simplicial quantum gravity, directed percolation, classical limit, discrete spacetime, 1+1 dimensional gravity
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