Quantum Cosmology from Group Field Theory Condensates: a Review

• Veröffentlicht in: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Datum: 2016
• Hauptverfasser: Gielen, S., Sindoni, L.
• Format: Artikel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2016
• Online Zugang: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/147844
• Назва журналу: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Zitieren: Quantum Cosmology from Group Field Theory Condensates: a Review / S. Gielen, L. Sindoni // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2016. — Т. 12. — Бібліогр.: 135 назв. — англ.

We give, in some detail, a critical overview over recent work towards deriving a cosmological phenomenology from the fundamental quantum dynamics of group field theory (GFT), based on the picture of a macroscopic universe as a ''condensate'' of a large number of quanta of geometr...