Putting a cap on causality violations in causal dynamical triangulations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Ambjørn, Jan ^a,b   Loll, Renate ^a   Westra, Willem ^c   Zohren, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D gravity; Lattice models of gravity; Models of quantum gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049044382     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/017     Document Type: Article

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