Making classical and quantum canonical general relativity computable through a power series expansion in the inverse cosmological constant

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5272-5275

  Gambini, Rodolfo ^a   Pullin, Jorge ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY;

COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; DIFFEOMORPHISM; FIELD THEORY; POWER SERIES EXPANSION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0034498457     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5272     Document Type: Article

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