Effective spin foam models for Lorentzian quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ac1b44OpenAlexW3196431051MaRDI QIDQ5164084

Seth K. Asante, José Padua-Argüelles, Bianca Dittrich

Publication date: 9 November 2021

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00485

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian quantum gravityeffective spin foam models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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Uses Software

• sl2cfoam

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