Problem of time in quantum gravity

Annalen der Physik

Volumn 524, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 757-786

  Anderson, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

histories theory; quantum cosmology; quantum gravity; Time; timelessness; Wheeler DeWitt equation

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM COSMOLOGY; QUANTUM GRAVITY; TIME; TIMELESSNESS; WHEELER-DEWITT EQUATION;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY; STARS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84870975859     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.201200147     Document Type: Review

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