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Spin foam

In physics, a spin foam is a four-dimensional graph made out of two-dimensional faces that represents one of the configurations that must be summed to obtain Feynman's path integral (functional integration) describing the alternative formulation of quantum gravity known as loop gravity or loop quantum gravity.

A spin foam may be viewed as a history of evolution of a spin network.

01-04-2007 01:18:14
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