Clock and category: Is quantum gravity algebraic?
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 36 (11) , 6180-6193
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531240
Abstract
We investigate the possibility that the quantum theory of gravity could be constructed discretely using algebraic methods. The algebraic tools are similar to ones used in constructing topological quantum field theories.The algebraic tools are related to ideas about the reinterpretation of quantum mechanics in a general relativistic context.Comment: To appear in special issue of JMP. Latex documenKeywords
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