Introduction to multifractional spacetimes

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1483, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-53

  Calcagni, Gianluca ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fractal Geometry; Models of Quantum Gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874472667     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4756961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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