Introduction to causal sets and their phenomenology

DOI10.1007/s10714-013-1569-yzbMath1273.83062OpenAlexW1993705871WikidataQ56806384 ScholiaQ56806384MaRDI QIDQ372411

Fay Dowker

Publication date: 7 October 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-013-1569-y

zbMATH Keywords

nonlocalityquantum gravitydiscrete spacetime

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) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Continuous lattices and posets, applications (06B35) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Ordered sets and their cofinalities; pcf theory (03E04)

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