A brief introduction to Loop Quantum Cosmology

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1130, Issue , 2009, Pages 89-100

  Marugán, Guillermo A Mena ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Big bounce; Loop quantum gravity; Quantum cosmology; Singularity resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249138070     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3146242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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