A Short and Subjective Introduction to the Spinfoam Framework for Quantum Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-03-18 v1
Abstract
This is my Th\`ese d'Habilitation (HDR) on the topic of spinfoam models for quantum gravity, which I presented in l'Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon on december 16 2010. The spinfoam framework is a proposal for a regularized path integral for quantum gravity, inspired from Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) and state-sum models. It can also be seen as defining transition amplitudes for the quantum states of geometry for Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG).
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@article{arxiv.1101.5061,
title = {A Short and Subjective Introduction to the Spinfoam Framework for Quantum Gravity},
author = {Etera R. Livine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5061},
year = {2015}
}
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90 pages