Our picks for fourth quarter 2013 MIP (most important QG paper)

Of the twenty candidates, indicate the ones you think will prove most significant for future QG research. I've included two papers from earlier in the year which I mistakenly overlooked when they first appeared. Since the poll is multiple choice, it's possible to vote for several papers. Abstracts follow in the next post.



http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7273

On How Neutrino Protects the Axion

Gia Dvali, Sarah Folkerts, Andre Franca

(Submitted on 27 Dec 2013)

9 pages



http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3657

Structural aspects of loop quantum gravity and loop quantum cosmology from an algebraic perspective

Alexander Stottmeister, Thomas Thiemann

(Submitted on 12 Dec 2013)

45 pages



http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3595

Hawking radiation from a spherical loop quantum gravity black hole

Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

(Submitted on 12 Dec 2013)

13 pages



http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3253

General Relativity from a Thermodynamic Perspective

Thanu Padmanabhan

(Submitted on 11 Dec 2013)

53 pages



http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1538

Gravitational Energy, Local Holography and Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics

Laurent Freidel

(Submitted on 5 Dec 2013)

41 pages, 3 figures



http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1312.0905

Quantum group spin nets: refinement limit and relation to spin foams

Bianca Dittrich, Mercedes Martin-Benito, Sebastian Steinhaus

(Submitted on 3 Dec 2013)

30+5 pages, many figures



http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7565

Time evolution as refining, coarse graining and entangling

Bianca Dittrich, Sebastian Steinhaus

(Submitted on 29 Nov 2013)

33 pages, 9 figures



http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1311.6117

The Koslowski-Sahlmann representation: Gauge and diffeomorphism invariance

Miguel Campiglia, Madhavan Varadarajan

(Submitted on 24 Nov 2013)

45 pages.



http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5325

Note on the super inflation in loop quantum cosmology

Kui Xiao, Xiao-Kai He, Jian-Yang Zhu

(Submitted on 21 Nov 2013)

9 pages, 4 figures. Physics Letters B



http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3279

Null twisted geometries

Simone Speziale, Mingyi Zhang

(Submitted on 13 Nov 2013)

22 pages, 3 figures



http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2898

Matter matters in asymptotically safe quantum gravity

Pietro Donà, Astrid Eichhorn, Roberto Percacci

(Submitted on 12 Nov 2013)

22 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables



http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0186

Twistor relative locality

Lee Smolin

(Submitted on 1 Nov 2013)

10 pages



http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0054

Relative information at the foundation of physics

Carlo Rovelli

(Submitted on 31 Oct 2013)

3 pages. Second prize in the 2013 FQXi contest "It From Bit or Bit From It?"



http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7786

Group field theory as the 2nd quantization of Loop Quantum Gravity

Daniele Oriti

(Submitted on 29 Oct 2013)

23 pages, 5 figures



http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6728

Quantization ambiguities and bounds on geometric scalars in anisotropic loop quantum cosmology

Parampreet Singh, Edward Wilson-Ewing

(Submitted on 24 Oct 2013)

34 pages



http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5167

A Gravitational Origin of the Arrows of Time

Julian Barbour, Tim Koslowski, Flavio Mercati

(Submitted on 18 Oct 2013)

44+14 pages, 8 figures, 1 table



http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3362

Deformation Operators of Spin Networks and Coarse-Graining

Etera R. Livine

(Submitted on 12 Oct 2013)

24 pages



http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2174

Radiative corrections to the EPRL-FK spinfoam graviton

Aldo Riello

(Submitted on 8 Oct 2013)

13 pages, 4 figures



http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1309.0352

Cosmological perturbations in teleparallel Loop Quantum Cosmology

Jaime Haro

(Submitted on 2 Sep 2013)

18 pages. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics



http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1058

Quantum gravity from the point of view of locally covariant quantum field theory

Romeo Brunetti, Klaus Fredenhagen, Katarzyna Rejzner

(Submitted on 5 Jun 2013)

51 pages