Publications, Papers, and Notes

A moderately current cv(pdf)

Publication list from INSPIRE

 

A selection of older papers:

S. Major Quantum Gravity with Undergraduates

Contributed to the AAPT Teaching GR conference Syracuse 20-21 July 2006.

* T. Konopka and S. Major Observational limits on Quantum Geometry Effects

New J. Phys. 4 (2002) 57

* S. Major and M. Seifert Modeling Space with a Atom of Quantum Geometry

Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) 2211-2227

* S. Major and K. Setter On the Universality of the Entropy-Area Relation

Class. Quant. Grav. 18 (2001) 5293-5298

*S. Major and K. Setter Gravitational Statistical Mechanics: A model

Class. Quant. Grav. 18 (2001) 5125-5141

S. Major New Operators for Spin Net Gravity

MG9 (Rome) Proceedings Online

S. Major Quasilocal Energy for Spin-net Gravity

Class. Quant. Grav. 17 (2000) 1467-1487

S. Major Operators for Quantized Directions

Class. Quant. Grav. 16 (1999) 3859-3877

S. Major Towards Quantum Gravity: Discrete Geometry -- Observable Consequences (pdf)

An expanded form of the talk I gave at Swarthmore College in March 1999. With exercises! (unpublished)

S. Major A Spin Network Primer (pdf)

Am. J. Phys. 67 (1999) 972-980

S. Major Embedded Graph Invariants in Chern-Simons Theory

Nuc. Phys. B 550 (1999) 531-560

S. Major, q-Quantum Gravity

Ph.D. dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997. Abstract

See below for papers on the q deformation of the loop representation.

V. Husain and S. Major Gravity and BF theory defined in bounded regions

Nuc. Phys. B 500 (1997) 381-401

In this work a new loop representation is developed which takes framed holonomies as the basic objects:

S. Major and L. Smolin, Quantum Deformation of Quantum Gravity

Nuc. Phys. B 473 (1996) 267

R. Borissov, S. Major and L. Smolin The Geometry of Quantum Spin Networks

Class. Quant. Grav. 13 (1996) 3181

These two papers are studies of the quantum Bianchi IX cosmological model. In the first a path integral study using the new variables and Fadeev-Popov gauge fixing. The second introduces a hybrid approach in which the theory is defined by the canonical theory and then evolved off the slice by a path integral:

S. Major and L. Smolin Cosmological Histories for the New Variables of Ashtekar

Phys. Rev. D 51 (1995) 5475

S. Major and L. Smolin Mixmaster quantum cosmology in terms of physical dynamics

(unpublished)

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