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The problem of the construction of a quantum theory of gravitation is attacked by a variety of methods. The fundamental epistemological difficulties are ellucidated and certain novel qualitative features of the sought-for quantum theory are described.
This work is supported in part by the United States Air Force under Grant No. AF-AFOSR 68-1524
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Komar, A. (1970). The Quantization Program for General Relativity. In: Carmeli, M., Fickler, S.I., Witten, L. (eds) Relativity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0721-1_2
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