Gravity from Dirac eigenvalues

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 479-494

  Landi, Giovanni ^a,c,d   Rovelli, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1142/S0217732398000541     Document Type: Article

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