Differential geometry on the space of connections via graphs and projective limits

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 191-230

  Ashtekar, Abhay ^a,b   Lewandowski, Jerzy ^c,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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

Author keywords

Connections; Diffeomorphism invariance; Graph; Heat equation; Laplacian; Loop quantization; Measure; Wilson loop

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542552153     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0393-0440(95)00028-G     Document Type: Article

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