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Tall Tales from de Sitter Space

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Lectures on Quantum Gravity

Part of the book series: Series of the Centro De Estudios Científicos ((SCEC))

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This is a short summary of lectures on some of the recent ideas emerging in the discussion of quantum gravity with a positive cosmological constant. The lectures given at the School on Quantum Gravity, at Centro de Estudios Científicos, Valdivia, Chile in January 2002. The following summary is largely based on material appearing in refs. [1, 2, 3].

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Myers, R.C. (2005). Tall Tales from de Sitter Space. In: Gomberoff, A., Marolf, D. (eds) Lectures on Quantum Gravity. Series of the Centro De Estudios Científicos. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-24992-3_6

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