The new spin foam models and quantum gravity

2012/05/04 by Alejandro Pérez, Perez, Alejandro
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.0911

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Abstract

In this article we give a systematic definition of the recently introduced spin foam models for four dimensional quantum gravity reviewing the main results on their semiclassical limit on fixed discretizations.

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