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Quantum Geometry and Black Hole Entropy
A. Ashtekar, J. Baez, A. Corichi +1
A `black hole sector' of non-perturbative canonical quantum gravity is introduced. The quantum black hole degrees of freedom are shown to be described by a Chern-Simons field theor…
gr-qc1997★ 385 cited
Spin Foam Models
John C. Baez
While the use of spin networks has greatly improved our understanding of the kinematical aspects of quantum gravity, the dynamical aspects remain obscure. To address this problem,…
gr-qc1997★ 3 cited
Degenerate Solutions of General Relativity from Topological Field Theory
John C. Baez
Working in the Palatini formalism, we describe a procedure for constructing degenerate solutions of general relativity on 4-manifold M from certain solutions of 2-dimensional BF th…