| ORIGINAL ARTICLE | Publication URI: http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-11 |
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| Title | Loop Quantum Cosmology |
| Author | Martin Bojowald |
| Date | accepted 28 October 2005, published 8 December 2005 |
| UPDATE | Publication URI: http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2008-4 |
| Title | Loop Quantum Cosmology |
| Author | Martin Bojowald |
| Date | accepted 26 May 2008, published 2 July 2008 |
| Changes | Updated and added 108 new references.
New: Sect. 3.7 on relational dynamics Sect. 4.7 on phenomenological higher curvature corrections Sect. 4.8 on their intuitive meaning Sect. 4.9 on applications Sect. 4.13 on phenomenological higher curvature in anisotropic models Sect. 4.14 bottom paragraph on the BKL picture Sect. 4.19.1 paragraph Sect. 4.19.5 on cosmological perturbation theory Sect. 4.19.6 on equations of state Sect. 4.19.7 on big bang nucleosynthesis Sect. 4.20 extended summary Sect. 5.5 on dynamical refinements of the discreteness scale Sect. 5.20 on numerical and mathematical quantum cosmology Sect. 6 on effective theory Sect. 7.1 two bottom paragraphs on symmetric states Sect. 9 some updates according to recent progress Systematic changes: Sect. 4: consider different types of quantum corrections from loop quantum gravity: inverse volume and holonomies. Emphasize quantum back-reaction with reference to new Sect. 6 Sect. 4.17: several changes on inhomogeneous perturbations Sect. 5.4: several remarks added on possible scale dependence of the discreteness in Hamiltonian constraint operators as well as new constructions of operators for closed and open models Sect. 5.6.2: update of procedure to derive effective equations, with reference to new Sect. 6 Corrections in Sect. 5.11 on Einstein-Rosen waves |