Special Issue on Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology

The Guest Editors for this special issue are

Martin Bojowald (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Bianca Dittrich (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany)
Etera Livine (ENS Lyon, France)
Parthasarathi Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India)
Fotini Markopoulou (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)

The aim of this special issue of SIGMA is to provide a current overview of some of the main developments and applications of Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology.

The issue contains 25 papers with the total of 893 pages.

We would like to thank all the authors who have published papers in the issue, and to give our special thanks to all the referees for providing constructive reviews.

Papers in this Issue:

Semiclassical Loop Quantum Gravity and Black Hole Thermodynamics

Arundhati Dasgupta
SIGMA 9 (2013), 013, 25 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

The Construction of Spin Foam Vertex Amplitudes

Eugenio Bianchi and Frank Hellmann
SIGMA 9 (2013), 008, 22 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Loop Quantum Gravity Phenomenology: Linking Loops to Observational Physics

Florian Girelli, Franz Hinterleitner and Seth A. Major
SIGMA 8 (2012), 098, 73 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Spin Foams and Canonical Quantization

Sergei Alexandrov, Marc Geiller and Karim Noui
SIGMA 8 (2012), 055, 79 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Discrete Gravity Models and Loop Quantum Gravity: a Short Review

Maïté Dupuis, James P. Ryan and Simone Speziale
SIGMA 8 (2012), 052, 31 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Isolated Horizons and Black Hole Entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity

Jacobo Diaz-Polo and Daniele Pranzetti
SIGMA 8 (2012), 048, 58 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

On the Relations between Gravity and BF Theories

Laurent Freidel and Simone Speziale
SIGMA 8 (2012), 032, 15 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Emergent Models for Gravity: an Overview of Microscopic Models

Lorenzo Sindoni
SIGMA 8 (2012), 027, 45 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Loop Quantum Gravity Vacuum with Nondegenerate Geometry

Tim Koslowski and Hanno Sahlmann
SIGMA 8 (2012), 026, 15 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Novel Possibility of Nonstandard Statistics in the Inflationary Spectrum of Primordial Inhomogeneities

Gabriel León and Daniel Sudarsky
SIGMA 8 (2012), 024, 18 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Colored Tensor Models - a Review

Razvan Gurau and James P. Ryan
SIGMA 8 (2012), 020, 78 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Intersecting Quantum Gravity with Noncommutative Geometry - a Review

Johannes Aastrup and Jesper Møller Grimstrup
SIGMA 8 (2012), 018, 25 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Relational Observables in Gravity: a Review

Johannes Tambornino
SIGMA 8 (2012), 017, 30 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Introduction to Loop Quantum Cosmology

Kinjal Banerjee, Gianluca Calcagni and Mercedes Martín-Benito
SIGMA 8 (2012), 016, 73 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Learning about Quantum Gravity with a Couple of Nodes

Enrique F. Borja, Iñaki Garay and Francesca Vidotto
SIGMA 8 (2012), 015, 44 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Emergent Braided Matter of Quantum Geometry

Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Louis Kauffman and Yidun Wan
SIGMA 8 (2012), 014, 43 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Matter in Loop Quantum Gravity

Ghanashyam Date and Golam Mortuza Hossain
SIGMA 8 (2012), 010, 26 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Lessons from Toy-Models for the Dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity

Valentin Bonzom and Alok Laddha
SIGMA 8 (2012), 009, 50 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Entropy of Quantum Black Holes

Romesh K. Kaul
SIGMA 8 (2012), 005, 30 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Discretisations, Constraints and Diffeomorphisms in Quantum Gravity

Benjamin Bahr, Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin
SIGMA 8 (2012), 002, 29 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Numerical Techniques in Loop Quantum Cosmology

David Brizuela, Daniel Cartin and Gaurav Khanna
SIGMA 8 (2012), 001, 26 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Statistical Thermodynamics of Polymer Quantum Systems

Guillermo Chacón-Acosta, Elisa Manrique, Leonardo Dagdug and Hugo A. Morales-Técotl
SIGMA 7 (2011), 110, 23 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

The Space of Connections as the Arena for (Quantum) Gravity

Steffen Gielen
SIGMA 7 (2011), 104, 12 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

Equivalent and Alternative Forms for BF Gravity with Immirzi Parameter

Merced Montesinos and Mercedes Velázquez
SIGMA 7 (2011), 103, 13 pages   [ abs   pdf ]

A Lorentz-Covariant Connection for Canonical Gravity

Marc Geiller, Marc Lachièze-Rey, Karim Noui and Francesco Sardelli
SIGMA 7 (2011), 083, 10 pages   [ abs   pdf ]