Discreteness of the volume of space from Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bianchi, Eugenio ^a   Haggard, Hal M ^b  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL RELATIVITY; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERS; QUANTUM GRAVITY;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 79961069838     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.011301     Document Type: Article

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