The century of the incomplete revolution: Searching for general relativistic quantum field theory

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3776-3800

  Rovelli, Carlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

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EID: 0034381246     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.533327     Document Type: Article

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