Spacetime as a Feynman diagram: the connection formulation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/1/308zbMath0977.83015arXivgr-qc/0002095OpenAlexW2145154906MaRDI QIDQ2704296

Michael P. Reisenberger, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date: 11 January 2002

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0002095

zbMATH Keywords

topological field theoryFeynman diagramdynamical topologygravitational degrees of freedomlattice spacetimespin-foam formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Discrete geometry (52C99)

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