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Phys. Rev. D 44, 1050–1058 (1991)

Geometric construction of the measure: Minisuperspace quantum gravity and the relativistic particle compared

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Jemal Guven and J. David Vergara
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-543, 04510 México, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Received 26 March 1991; published in the issue dated 15 August 1991

We examine the Polyakov functional-integral quantization of a minisuperspace model for quantum gravity using the relativistic free particle as a guideline. While formally the two models are very similar, there are differences which we expect have a genuine physical significance.

© 1991 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.44.1050
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10.1103/PhysRevD.44.1050
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