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Making the gravitational path integral more Lorentzian, or: Life beyond Liouville gravity

Authors :
Renate Loll
Jan Ambjørn
Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos
Source :
Nuclear Physics B-Proceedings Supplements
Publication Year :
1999
Publisher :
Elsevier, 1999.

Abstract

In two space-time dimensions, there is a theory of Lorentzian quantum gravity which can be defined by a rigorous, non-perturbative path integral and is inequivalent to the well-known theory of (Euclidean) quantum Liouville gravity. It has a number of appealing features: i) its quantum geometry is non-fractal, ii) it remains consistent when coupled to matter, even beyond the c=1 barrier, iii) it is closer to canonical quantization approaches than previous path-integral formulations, and iv) its construction generalizes to higher dimensions.<br />Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures (postscript), uses espcrc2.sty

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nuclear Physics B-Proceedings Supplements
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....8f5280d8a06cb5f7f370cc40ef20ebf2