Discrete quantum gravity: cosmological examples (Q4460993)

Discreteness is an extremely important aspect of many natural phenomena. Quantum gravity is a difficult but a very valuable subject attracting much current attention. Cosmology has a long history with its specific illustrations throwing helpful hints into various areas of fundamental research. In this paper the authors consider certain applications of ``Consistent lattice quantum gravity'' approach to Friedmann cosmology and Bianchi cosmological models. Problems from discretization to continuum limits are treated. It is important to realize that in theories where time and space are discretized working with Hamiltonian is no more proper. After the introduction, Friedmann models, quantization, other models and conclusions form the section titles. The work presents certain simple attempts to understand an approach to discrete general relativity.