Quantum gravity, shadow states and quantum mechanics

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1031-1061

  Ashtekar, Abhay ^a,b   Fairhurst, Stephen ^a,b,c   Willis, Joshua L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 0037278308     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/20/6/302     Document Type: Article

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