U.S.-Italy Cooperative Research: An Approach to             Nonperturbative Quantum Gravity
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This award will support Professors Abhay Ashtekar and Lee Smolin of             Syracuse University in a research collaboration with Professor                  Carlo Rovelli of the University of Rome.  The investigators plan to             continue their very fruitful collaboration on one of the                        fundamentally important unsolved problems of physics: the                       quantization of general relativity.  The proposed research involves             further investigation of two new representations for quantum                    gravity: the self-dual representation and the loop space                        representation in which quantum states are defined by suitable                  functions on the space of loops on a 3-manifold.                                                                                                                The collaborators have been at the forefront of research in quantum             gravity theories and have made significant progress in the                      construction of the physical state space of gravitational fields.               This collaboration will allow them to extend their promising search             for solutions to the problems of quantum general relativity.
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