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| | EARLY COSMOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL RELATIVITY |
 | | D.Oriti made an introduction to spin foam models for non-perturbative quantum gravity, an approach that lies at the point of convergence of many different research areas, including loop quantum gravity, topological quantum field theories, path integral quantum gravity, lattice gauge theory, matrix models, category theory, statistical mechanics. |
 | | It was derived (D.Oriti, R.M. Williams) the the Barrett-Crane spin foam model for Euclidean 4-dimensional quantum gravity from a discretized BF theory, imposing the constraints that reduce it to gravity at the quantum level. |
 | | G.Imponente and G.Montani, "Mixmaster Chaos and Quantum Aspects of the Statistical Probability Distribution", 2001, International Journal of the Korean Physical Society, in press. |
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