Geometrical measurements in three-dimensional quantum gravity

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03017981zbMath1080.83510arXivgr-qc/0203018MaRDI QIDQ3370192

John W. Barrett

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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