The Small Scale Structure of Space-Time: A Bibliographical Review

Phil E. Gibbs

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The Small Scale Structure of Space-Time: A Bibliographical Review

Phil E. Gibbs

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 26 Jun 1995

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The authors' main claim This essay is a tour around many of the lesser known pregeometric models of physics, as well as the mainstream approaches to quantum gravity, in search of common themes which may provide a glimpse of the final theory which must lie behind them.

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This essay is a tour around many of the lesser known pregeometric models of physics, as well as the mainstream approaches to quantum gravity, in search of common themes which may provide a glimpse of the final theory which must lie behind them.

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This essay is a tour around many of the lesser known pregeometric models of physics, as well as the mainstream approaches to quantum gravity, in search of common themes which may provide a glimpse of the final theory which must lie behind them.

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The small-scale structure of a spacetime are reviewed in [ref] ; the difficulties on the definition of areas and volumes within the quantum framework are analyzed in [ref] .

Semiclassical Length Measure from a Quantum-Gravity Wave Function · Hilbert space · 0.99
An accessible summary discussion of the development of this concept could be found in Ref. [ref] , in which the major difficulty of reconstructing QM on discrete space-time, starting from the Hamiltonian formulation or the path integral formulation, was discussed briefly.

Mathematical Structure of Discrete Space-time · Introduction · 0.98
References to many proposals regarding pregeometry are provided by Gibbs [ref] .

Reality - an emerging representation of the world · The Structure of the World · 0.93

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