LEADER 03479nam 2200817z- 450 001 9910557580403321 005 20210501 035 $a(CKB)5400000000043845 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68704 035 $a(oapen)doab68704 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000043845 100 $a20202105d2020 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aProgress in Group Field Theory and Related Quantum Gravity Formalisms 210 $aBasel, Switzerland$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (338 p.) 311 08$a3-03936-178-3 311 08$a3-03936-179-1 330 $aFollowing the fundamental insights from quantum mechanics and general relativity, geometry itself should have a quantum description; the search for a complete understanding of this description is what drives the field of quantum gravity. Group field theory is an ambitious framework in which theories of quantum geometry are formulated, incorporating successful ideas from the fields of matrix models, ten-sor models, spin foam models and loop quantum gravity, as well as from the broader areas of quantum field theory and mathematical physics. This special issue collects recent work in group field theory and these related approaches, as well as other neighbouring fields (e.g., cosmology, quantum information and quantum foundations, statistical physics) to the extent that these are directly relevant to quantum gravity research. 606 $aMathematics & science$2bicssc 606 $aResearch & information: general$2bicssc 610 $aadiabatic vacua 610 $abackground independence 610 $ablack holes 610 $aBogoliubov transformation 610 $abouncing cosmology 610 $acomputer simulations 610 $acosmological perturbation theory 610 $adiscrete quantum gravity models 610 $aeffective field theory 610 $aentropy 610 $ageneralised statistical equilibrium 610 $agroup field theory 610 $aholographic entanglement 610 $ahypersurface deformation algebra 610 $aLewis-Riesenfeld invariant 610 $alimiting curvature 610 $aloop quantum cosmology 610 $aloop quantum gravity 610 $aLQC instanton 610 $amimetic gravity 610 $ano-boundary proposal 610 $anonperturbative renormalization group 610 $anumerical methods 610 $aquantum computing 610 $aquantum cosmology 610 $aquantum geometry 610 $aquantum gravity 610 $aquantum many-body physics 610 $aquantum-gravity phenomenology 610 $arandom geometry 610 $arandom tensor networks 610 $arenormalization group 610 $aSpin networks 610 $avertex amplitudes 615 7$aMathematics & science 615 7$aResearch & information: general 700 $aGielen$b Steffen$4edt$01322511 702 $aCarrozza$b Sylvain$4edt 702 $aOriti$b Daniele$4edt 702 $aGielen$b Steffen$4oth 702 $aCarrozza$b Sylvain$4oth 702 $aOriti$b Daniele$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557580403321 996 $aProgress in Group Field Theory and Related Quantum Gravity Formalisms$93035102 997 $aUNINA