Causal dynamical triangulations and the quest for quantum gravity

Foundations of Space and Time: Reflections on Quantum Gravity

Volumn 9780521114400, Issue , 2012, Pages 321-337

  Ambjorn, J ^a,b   Jurkiewicz, J ^c   Loll, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY; SURVEYING; TRIANGULATION;

CLASSICAL THEORY; EXPECTATION VALUES; FREE PARAMETERS; GENERAL RELATIVITY; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION; NONPERTURBATIVE; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM GRAVITY;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84873127838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511920998.013     Document Type: Chapter

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