| Title |
Discrete Approaches to Quantum Gravity in Four Dimensions
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Living Reviews in Relativity, December 1998
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| DOI | 10.12942/lrr-1998-13 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Renate Loll |
| Abstract |
The construction of a consistent theory of quantum gravity is a problem in theoretical physics that has so far defied all attempts at resolution. One ansatz to try to obtain a non-trivial quantum theory proceeds via a discretization of space-time and the Einstein action. I review here three major areas of research: gauge-theoretic approaches, both in a path-integral and a Hamiltonian formulation; quantum Regge calculus; and the method of dynamical triangulations, confining attention to work that is strictly four-dimensional, strictly discrete, and strictly quantum in nature. |
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| South Africa | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 44 | 80% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 27% |
| Researcher | 10 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 15% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 16% |
| Unknown | 4 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Physics and Astronomy | 37 | 67% |
| Mathematics | 2 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 4% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 13% |
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