Combinatorial Space from Loop Quantum Gravity
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Spin foam models of gravity incorporate the discreteness of the geometry of space first uncovered in loop quantized canonical theory into a spacetime sum over histories formalism naturally suited to a 4-diffeo invariant theory.
“Spin foam models of gravity incorporate the discreteness of the geometry of space first uncovered [20, 21, 22, 23, 24] in loop quantized canonical theory into a spacetime sum over histories formalism naturally suited to a 4-diffeo invariant theory.”
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- Authors
- Zapata, J. A.
- Venue
- General Relativity and Gravitation
- Published
- 1998-08
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- 30
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- 8
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- 1229-1245
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- 0001-7701 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-9532
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Mathematical Physics › Advanced Operator Algebra Research
- Keywords
- loop quantum gravity, canonical quantization, diffeomorphism invariance, Yang-Mills fields, algebra of observables, quantum gravity, gauge theory
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