A Non-Abelian, categorical ontology of spacetimes and quantum gravity

Axiomathes

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 353-408

  Baianu, I C ^a   Brown, R ^b   Glazebrook, J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

The paradigm shift towards non abelian ontology, relations and abstract structures; Universal SpaceTime ontology, axioms of abelian categories and categorical ontology the theory of levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649016282     PISSN: 11221151     EISSN: 15728390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10516-007-9012-1     Document Type: Article

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