Emergent Braided Matter of Quantum Geometry

We review and present a few new results of the program of emergent matter as braid excitations of quantum geometry that is represented by braided ribbon networks. These networks are a generalisation of the spin networks proposed by Penrose and those in models of background independent quantum gravit...

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Main Authors: Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Louis Kauffman, Yidun Wan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2012-03-01
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.014