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Abhay Ashtekar

PhD Chicago (1974)

  
  
  
  

Abhay Ashtekar is the Eberly Professor of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. As the creator of Ashtekar variables, he is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity. He has written a number of descriptions of loop quantum gravity that are accessible to non-physicists.

Recent Publications:

  • Robustness of key features of loop quantum cosmology, Alejandro Corichi, Abhay Ashtekar, Parampreet Singh, Phys. Rev. D77 (2008) 024046, 0710.3565, 2007-10-18
  • Isolated Horizons in 2+1 Gravity, Olaf Dreyer, Abhay Ashtekar, Jacek Wisniewski, Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 6 (2002) 507-555, gr-qc/0206024, 2002-06-09

 
 
 
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