Causal sets and discrete spacetime

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 861, Issue , 2006, Pages 79-87

  Dowker, Fay ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70349494641     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2399569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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