Effective constraints of loop quantum gravity

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Bojowald, Martin ^a   Kagan, Mikhail ^a   Hernández, Hector H ^b   Skirzewski, Aureliano ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 33947307462     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.064022     Document Type: Article

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