Combinatorial Spacetime from Loop Quantum Gravity
arXiv:2602.08341 · doi:10.1134/S154747712570195X
Abstract
Loop quantum gravity is a perspective candidate for the quantum theory of gravity. However, there is a conceptual controversy in it: having started from the Einstein-Hilbert action and describing spacetime without matter, we can hardly define spacetime as anything other than a set of relations between matter fields. Here, following the Penrose idea of combinatorial spacetime we reformulate loop quantum gravity theory solely in terms of the matter fields.
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