The case for background independence

MaRDI QIDQ3434466zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lee Smolin

Publication date 2 May 2007

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507235

zbMATH Keywords

3+1-decomposition of space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Recommendations

• Background independence: lessons for further decades of dispute
• Background-independence
• Background independence and field redefinitions in quantum gravity
• A definition of background independence
• Background independent quantum gravity: a status report

Cited in

(26)

• The non-unique universe
• A proposal for a Bohmian ontology of quantum gravity
• An abstract theory of physical measurements
• Three principles for canonical quantum gravity
• Dualities and emergent gravity: Gauge/gravity duality
• The deep metaphysics of quantum gravity: the seventeenth century legacy and an alternative ontology beyond substantivalism and relationism
• Invariants in quantum geometry
• Background independence and field redefinitions in quantum gravity
• L_-algebra models and higher Chern-Simons theories
• Pitholes in Space-Time: Structure and Ontology of Physical Geometry
• A definition of background independence
• Quantum gravity meets structuralism: interweaving relations in the foundations of physics
• Motion and observation in a single-particle universe
• Stochastic emergent quantum gravity
• Background independence in a nutshell: the dynamics of a tetrahedron
• The homological Kähler-de Rham differential mechanism. I: Application in general theory of relativity
• Remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence
• Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity
• Loop representation of quantum gravity
• Thermodynamical properties of an ideal gas in a traversable wormhole
• Background-independence
• Background independence: lessons for further decades of dispute
• The harmonic background paradigm, or why gravity is attractive
• Quantum curvature fluctuations and the cosmological constant in a single plaquette quantum gravity model
• A symplectic geometric origin of universal quartic modified dispersion relations
• Linear structures, causal sets and topology

This page was built for publication: The case for background independence

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3434466)