Structural Issues in Quantum Gravity
Abstract
A discursive, non-technical, analysis is made of some of the basic issues that arise in almost any approach to quantum gravity, and of how these issues stand in relation to recent developments in the field. Specific topics include the applicability of the conceptual and mathematical structures of both classical general relativity and standard quantum theory. This discussion is preceded by a short history of the last twenty-five years of research in quantum gravity, and concludes with speculations on what a future theory might look like.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 1995
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/9510063
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/9510063
- Bibcode:
- 1995gr.qc....10063I
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 42 pages, latex, no figures. Writeup of GR14 plenary lecture