Wavefunction of the universe and Chern-Simons perturbation theory

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1051-1063

  Soo, Chopin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 0036278248     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/19/6/303     Document Type: Article

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