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doi: 10.12942/lrr-2013-3
Living Rev. Relativity 16 (2013), 3
The Spin-Foam Approach to Quantum Gravity
1 Centre de Physique Théorique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 6207) du CNRS et des e Universités Aix-Marseille I, Aix-Marseille II, et du Sud Toulon-Var; laboratoire afilié a la FRUMAM (FR 2291)
Article Abstract
This article reviews the present status of the spin-foam approach to the quantization of gravity. Special attention is payed to the pedagogical presentation of the recently-introduced new models for four-dimensional quantum gravity. The models are motivated by a suitable implementation of the path integral quantization of the Plebanski formulation of gravity on a simplicial regularization. The article also includes a self contained treatment of 2+1 gravity. The simple nature of the latter provides the basis and a perspective for the analysis of both conceptual and technical issues that remain open in four dimensions.
Keywords: Quantum gravity
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| ORIGINAL | http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2013-3 |
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| Title | The Spin-Foam Approach to Quantum Gravity |
| Author | Alejandro Perez |
| Date | accepted 11 June 2012, published 14 February 2013 |
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