Recurrence relations for spin foam vertices

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Bonzom, Valentin ^a,b   Livine, Etera R ^a   Speziale, Simone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

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EID: 77951889824     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/12/125002     Document Type: Article

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