Bubble networks: framed discrete geometry for quantum gravity

DOI10.1007/s10714-018-2493-yzbMath1409.83063arXiv1810.09364OpenAlexW3105021781WikidataQ128738637 ScholiaQ128738637MaRDI QIDQ1710016

Laurent Freidel, Etera R. Livine

Publication date: 15 January 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09364

zbMATH Keywords

spin networkdiscrete geometrymaximal entanglementloop quantum gravitydiscrete gravitytwisted geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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