John Baez

4 lectures at Graphs and Patterns in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
a conference in honor of Dennis Sullivan's 60th birthday.

June 14-21, 2001

Riemannian Quantum Geometry and Gauge Theory

This is an introduction to loop quantum gravity and its associated mathematics - for example, gauge theory on a graph. It's aimed at mathematicians who may not know much about quantization.

Click on these to see the slides as PDF files:

Thanks go to Derek Wise for scanning in these slides.


Abhay Ashtekar gave a companion talk at the same conference:

For more try these papers:


© 2001 John Baez
baez@math.removethis.ucr.andthis.edu

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