Causal Barrett-Crane model: Measure, coupling constant, Wick rotation, symmetries, and observables

DOI10.1103/PhysRevD.67.064022zbMath1222.83069arXivgr-qc/0212049MaRDI QIDQ3093896

Hendryk Pfeiffer

Publication date: 19 October 2011

Published in: Physical Review D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0212049

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81V17: Gravitational interaction in quantum theory

83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field

83C27: Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory

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