Particle scattering in loop quantum gravity

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Nov 4;95(19):191301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.191301. Epub 2005 Nov 1.

Abstract

We devise a technique for defining and computing -point functions in the context of a background-independent gravitational quantum field theory. We construct a tentative implementation of this technique in a perturbatively finite model defined using spin foam techniques in the context of loop quantum gravity.