Spin foam models for quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/6/202zbMath1030.83002arXivgr-qc/0301113OpenAlexW2125490099MaRDI QIDQ4808184

Publication date: 22 February 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0301113

zbMATH Keywords

discretization quantum gravity gauge invariance Barrett Crane model Riemannian three-dimensional gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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