Quantum gravity as a broken symmetry phase of a BF theory

Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Miković, Aleksandar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anti de Sitter; De Sitter; Spin foams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889234691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18150659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2006.086     Document Type: Article

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