Coupling of spacetime atoms in 4D spin foam models from group field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Livine, Etera R ^a,b   Oriti, Daniele ^c,d  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GIRTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lattice models of gravity; Models of quantum gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947684884     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/092     Document Type: Article

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