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Quantization of Geometry by Jan Ambjorn

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Quantization of Geometry
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Publisher: arXiv.org
Number of pages: 101

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From the table of contents: Introduction; Bosonic propagators and random paths; Random surfaces and strings; Matrix models and two-dimensional quantum gravity; The mystery of c>1; Euclidean quantum gravity in d>2; Discussion.

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