(Quantum) spacetime as a statistical geometry of lumps in random networks

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2029-2057

  Requardt, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0034340987     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/17/10/301     Document Type: Article

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