History of Loop Quantum Gravity - Bibliography

Bibliography

• Topical Reviews
  • Carlo Rovelli, Loop Quantum Gravity, Living Reviews in Relativity 1, (1998), 1, online article, 2001 15 August version.
  • Thomas Thiemann, Lectures on loop quantum gravity, e-print available as gr-qc/0210094
  • Abhay Ashtekar and Jerzy Lewandowski, Background independent quantum gravity: a status report, e-print available as gr-qc/0404018
  • Carlo Rovelli and Marcus Gaul, Loop Quantum Gravity and the Meaning of Diffeomorphism Invariance, e-print available as gr-qc/9910079.
  • Lee Smolin, The case for background independence, e-print available as hep-th/0507235.
• Popular books:
  • Julian Barbour, The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe
  • Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
  • Carlo Rovelli, Che cos'è il tempo? Che cos'è lo spazio?, Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2004. French translation: Qu'est ce que le temps? Qu'est ce que l'espace?, Bernard Gilson ed, Brussel, 2006. English translation: What is Time? What is space?, Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2006.
• Magazine articles:
  • Lee Smolin, "Atoms in Space and Time," Scientific American, January 2004
• Easier introductory, expository or critical works:
  • Abhay Ashtekar, Gravity and the quantum, e-print available as gr-qc/0410054
  • John C. Baez and Javier Perez de Muniain, Gauge Fields, Knots and Quantum Gravity, World Scientific (1994)
  • Carlo Rovelli, A Dialog on Quantum Gravity, e-print available as hep-th/0310077
• More advanced introductory/expository works:
  • Carlo Rovelli, Quantum Gravity, Cambridge University Press (2004); draft available online
  • Thomas Thiemann, Introduction to modern canonical quantum general relativity, e-print available as gr-qc/0110034
  • Abhay Ashtekar, New Perspectives in Canonical Gravity, Bibliopolis (1988).
  • Abhay Ashtekar, Lectures on Non-Perturbative Canonical Gravity, World Scientific (1991)
  • Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin, Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity, Cambridge University Press (1996)
  • Hermann Nicolai, Kasper Peeters, Marija Zamaklar, Loop quantum gravity: an outside view, e-print available as hep-th/0501114
  • "Loop and Spin Foam Quantum Gravity: A Brief Guide for beginners arXiv:hep-th/0601129 H. Nicolai and K. Peeters.
  • Edward Witten, Quantum Background Independence In String Theory, e-print available as hep-th/9306122.
• Conference proceedings:
  • John C. Baez (ed.), Knots and Quantum Gravity
• Fundamental research papers:
  • Amitabha Sen, Gravity as a spin system, Phys. Lett. B119:89–91, December 1982.
  • Abhay Ashtekar, New variables for classical and quantum gravity, Phys. Rev. Lett., 57, 2244-2247, 1986
  • Abhay Ashtekar, New Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity, Phys. Rev. D36, 1587-1602, 1987
  • Roger Penrose, Angular momentum: an approach to combinatorial space-time in Quantum Theory and Beyond, ed. Ted Bastin, Cambridge University Press, 1971
  • Carlo Rovelli and Lee Smolin, Knot theory and quantum gravity, Phys. Rev. Lett., 61 (1988) 1155
  • Carlo Rovelli and Lee Smolin, Loop space representation of quantum general relativity, Nuclear Physics B331 (1990) 80-152