Loop quantum gravity phenomenology and the issue of Lorentz invariance

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Bojowald, Martin ^a,b   Morales Técotl, Hugo A ^c,d   Sahlmann, Hanno ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMOS; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 18444396267     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.084012     Document Type: Article

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