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gr-qc2009

Ashtekar's variables without spin

Thomas Schucker

Ashtekar's variables are shown to arise naturally from a 3+1 split of general relativity in the Einstein-Cartan formulation. Thereby spinors are exorcised.

gr-qc200912 cited

Semiclassical suppression of weak anisotropies of a generic Universe

Marco Valerio Battisti, Riccardo Belvedere, Giovanni Montani

A semiclassical mechanism which suppresses the weak anisotropies of an inhomogeneous cosmological model is developed. In particular, a wave function of this Universe having a meani…

gr-qc200910 cited

Spherically symmetric black holes in minimally modified self-dual gravity

Akihiro Ishibashi, Simone Speziale

We discuss spherically symmetric black holes in the modified self-dual theory of gravity recently studied by Krasnov, obtained adding a Weyl-curvature dependent `cosmological term'…

gr-qc20091 cited

"Forget time"

Carlo Rovelli

Following a line of research that I have developed for several years, I argue that the best strategy for understanding quantum gravity is to build a picture of the physical world w…

gr-qc2009

Semi-classical isotropization of the Mixmaster Universe

Marco Valerio Battisti, Riccardo Belvedere, Giovanni Montani

A semi-classical mechanism which leads to the isotropization of the Mixmaster Universe is developed. A wave function of this Universe, which has a meaningful probabilistic interpre…

gr-qc20092 cited

GUP vs polymer quantum cosmology: the Taub model

Marco Valerio Battisti, Orchidea Maria Lecian, Giovanni Montani

The fate of the cosmological singularity in the Taub model is discussed within the two frameworks. An internal time variable is ruled out and the only remaining degree of freedom (…