Remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence

zbMATH Open1151.83010arXivgr-qc/0603087MaRDI QIDQ5448286FDOQ5448286

Authors: Domenico Giulini 

Publication date: 20 March 2008

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603087

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zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism invariancebackground independencegeneral covariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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