Background-independence

DOI10.1007/s10714-011-1210-xzbMath1228.83103arXiv1106.0920MaRDI QIDQ648093

Gordon Belot

Publication date: 22 November 2011

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0920

zbMATH Keywords

general relativity; background independence; absolute objects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T20: Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds

83E05: Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle

83C45: Quantization of the gravitational field

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

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