Relational particle models as toy models for quantum gravity and quantum cosmology

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 861, Issue , 2006, Pages 285-290

  Anderson, Edward ^a,b,c  

^a PETERHOUSE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Problem of Time; Quantum Gravity; Toy Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249727341     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2399586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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