Spin foam models of Riemannian quantum gravity

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 4627-4648

  Baez, John C ^a   Christensen, J Daniel ^b   Halford, Thomas R ^c   Tsang, David C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^d Cornell University   (United States)

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EID: 0036377632     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/301     Document Type: Review

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