Quantum gravity, field theory and signatures of noncommutative spacetime

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-29

  Szabo, Richard J ^a,b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAXWELL INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doubly special relativity; Noncommutative field theory; Noncommutative geometry; Spacetime quantization; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349893444     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-009-0897-4     Document Type: Review

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