Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00150-QzbMath0925.83013arXivgr-qc/9411005OpenAlexW2104041846MaRDI QIDQ1890677

Publication date: 21 May 1995

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9411005

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism regularization operator spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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