Quantum gravitation: The feynman path integral approach

Quantum Gravitation: The Feynman Path Integral Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-342

  Hamber, Herbert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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