Editing Loop quantum gravity (section)

== Further reading ==
* Popular books:
** [[Rodolfo Gambini]] and [[Jorge Pullin]], [https://doi.org/10.1142/11599 ''Loop Quantum Gravity for Everyone''], [[World Scientific]], 2020.
** [[Carlo Rovelli]], "Reality is not what it seems", Penguin, 2016.
** [[Martin Bojowald]], ''Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe'' 2010.
** [[Carlo Rovelli]], ''What is Time? What is space?'', Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2006.
** [[Lee Smolin]], ''[[Three Roads to Quantum Gravity]]'', 2001.
* Magazine articles:
** [[Lee Smolin]], "Atoms of Space and Time", ''[[Scientific American]]'', January 2004.
** [[Martin Bojowald]], "Following the Bouncing Universe", ''[[Scientific American]]'', October 2008.
* Easier introductory, expository or critical works:
** [[Abhay Ashtekar]], ''Gravity and the quantum'', e-print available as [https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410054 gr-qc/0410054] (2004).
** [[John C. Baez]] and Javier P. Muniain, ''Gauge Fields, Knots and Quantum Gravity'', World Scientific (1994).
** [[Carlo Rovelli]], ''A Dialog on Quantum Gravity'', e-print available as [https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310077 hep-th/0310077] (2003).
** [[Carlo Rovelli]] and [[Francesca Vidotto]], ''Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity'', Cambridge (2014); [http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/IntroductionLQG.pdf draft available online].
* More advanced introductory/expository works:
** [[Carlo Rovelli]], ''Quantum Gravity'', Cambridge University Press (2004); [http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf draft available online].
** [[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).
** T. Thiemann [https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0401172v1 The LQG – String: Loop Quantum Gravity Quantization of String Theory] (2004).
** {{cite journal | title = BF gravity
 | last1 = Celada | first1 = Mariano
 | last2 = Gonzalez | first2 = Diego
 | last3 = Montesinos | first3 = Merced
 | journal = Classical and Quantum Gravity
 | year = 2016 | volume = 33 | issue = 21 | page = 213001
 | arxiv = 1610.02020 | bibcode = 2016CQGra..33u3001C | doi = 10.1088/0264-9381/33/21/213001
 | s2cid = 119605468 | ref = none
}}
* Topical reviews
** {{cite arXiv| title = Zakopane lectures on loop gravity
 | last = Rovelli | first = Carlo
 | author-link = Carlo Rovelli
 | class = gr-qc
 | date = 2011
 | eprint = 1102.3660
 | ref = none
}}
** {{Cite journal | title = Loop Quantum Gravity
 | last = Rovelli | first = Carlo
 | author-link = Carlo Rovelli
 | journal = Living Reviews in Relativity
 | year = 1998 | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | page = 1
 | arxiv = gr-qc/9710008 | bibcode = 1998LRR.....1....1R | doi = 10.12942/lrr-1998-1 | doi-access = free | pmc = 5567241 | pmid = 28937180
 | ref = none
}}
** {{Cite book| chapter = Lectures on Loop Quantum Gravity
 | last = Thiemann | first = Thomas
 | title = Quantum Gravity
 | volume = 631 | series = [[Lecture Notes in Physics]]
 | pages = 41–135
 | date = 2003
 | arxiv = gr-qc/0210094 | bibcode = 2003LNP...631...41T | doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-45230-0_3 | isbn = 978-3-540-40810-9
 | s2cid = 119151491 | ref = none
}}
** {{Cite journal | title = Background Independent Quantum Gravity: A Status Report
 | last1 = Ashtekar | first1 = Abhay
 | last2 = Lewandowski | first2 = Jerzy
 | author1-link = Abhay Ashtekar
 | journal = Classical and Quantum Gravity
 | year = 2004 | volume = 21 | issue = 15 | pages = R53–R152
 | arxiv = gr-qc/0404018 | bibcode = 2004CQGra..21R..53A | doi = 10.1088/0264-9381/21/15/R01
 | s2cid = 119175535 | ref = none
}}
** [[Carlo Rovelli]] and Marcus Gaul, ''Loop Quantum Gravity and the Meaning of Diffeomorphism Invariance'', e-print available as [https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910079 gr-qc/9910079].
** [[Lee Smolin]], ''The case for background independence'', e-print available as [https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507235 hep-th/0507235].
** [[Alejandro Corichi]], ''Loop Quantum Geometry: A primer'', e-print available as [https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0507038v2 Loop Quantum Geometry: A primer].
** Alejandro Perez, ''Introduction to loop quantum gravity and spin foams'', e-print available as [https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409061v3 Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity and Spin Foams].
* Fundamental research papers:
** [[Roger Penrose]], ''Angular momentum: an approach to combinatorial space-time'' in ''Quantum Theory and Beyond'', ed. Ted Bastin, Cambridge University Press, 1971.
** {{Cite journal | title = Knot theory and quantum gravity
 | last1 = Rovelli | first1 = Carlo
 | last2 = Smolin | first2 = Lee
 | author1-link = Carlo Rovelli
 | author2-link = Lee Smolin
 | journal = Physical Review Letters
 | year = 1988 | volume = 61 | issue = 10 | pages = 1155–1158
 | bibcode = 1988PhRvL..61.1155R | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1155 | pmid = 10038716
 | ref = none
}}
** {{Cite journal | title = Loop space representation of quantum general relativity
 | last1 = Rovelli | first1 = Carlo
 | last2 = Smolin | first2 = Lee
 | author1-link = Carlo Rovelli
 | author2-link = Lee Smolin
 | journal = Nuclear Physics
 | year = 1990 | volume = B331 | issue = 1 | pages = 80–152
 | bibcode = 1990NuPhB.331...80R | doi = 10.1016/0550-3213(90)90019-a
 | ref = none
}}
** [[Carlo Rovelli]] and [[Lee Smolin]], ''Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity'', Nuclear Physics, '''B442''' (1995). pp. 593–622, e-print available as {{arxiv|gr-qc/9411005}}.
** {{Cite book | last = Thiemann | first = Thomas
 | title = Approaches to Fundamental Physics | chapter = Loop Quantum Gravity: An Inside View | year = 2007 | volume = 721 | pages = 185–263
 | series = Lecture Notes in Physics
 | arxiv = hep-th/0608210 | bibcode = 2007LNP...721..185T | doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-71117-9_10 | isbn = 978-3-540-71115-5
 | s2cid = 119572847 | ref = none
}}