The new spin foam models and quantum gravity
arXiv:1205.0911
Abstract
In this article we give a systematic definition of the recently introduced spin foam models for four dimensional quantum gravity reviewing the main results on their semiclassical limit on fixed discretizations.
To appear in Papers in Physics
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