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The fermion energy spectrum along paths which connect topologically distinct vacua in the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory passing through the gravitational sphaleron equilibrium solutions is investigated.
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The spinfoam approach to quantum gravity rests on a "quantization" of BF theory using 2-complexes and group representations. We explain why, in dimension three and higher, this "spinfoam quantization" must be amended to be made consistent…
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