Carlo Rovelli - List of publications

(Updated February 2000)

You may find most of the actual papers here.    Thank you for your interest !
Carlo Rovelli		                                                             

I. Books

  1. C Rovelli et al: Fatti Nostri: Bologna 1977 (Bertani Editore, Verona 1978)
  2. C Rovelli: On the Loop Representation of Quantum Gravity; a collection of papers (Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh 1995)
  3. C Rovelli: Quantum Gravity (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004) to appear
  4. C Rovelli: Cos'è lo spazio? Cos'è il tempo? (Di Renzo Editore, Rome 2004) to appear.
II. Scientific papers
  1. C Rovelli: "Ghosts in Gravity theories with a scalar field", Il Nuovo Cimento 78B, 167 (1983)
  2. C Rovelli: "Constraint algebra in General Relativity" Il Nuovo Cimento 92B, 49 (1986)
  3. C Rovelli: "Anomalies in quantum gravity" Physics Letters B187, 88 (1987)
  4. C Rovelli: "Quantization of the 'single point gravity' hamiltonian system" Physics Review D35, 2987 (1987)
  5. C Rovelli: "Group quantization of constrained systems" Il Nuovo Cimento B 100, 343 (1988)
  6. C Rovelli and L Smolin: "Knot theory and quantum gravity" Physical Review Letters 61, 1155 (1988)
  7. C Rovelli: "Loop space representation" In: "New perspectives in canonical gravity", A Ashtekar Bibliopolis, Naples 1988
  8. C Rovelli: "General relativity in the fixed volume gauge" Classical and Quantum Gravity 6, 911 (1989)
  9. A Ashtekar, V Husain, J Samuel, C Rovelli, L Smolin: "2+1 quantum gravity as a toy model for the 3+1 theory'' Classical and Quantum Gravity 6, L185 (1989)
  10. C Rovelli, L Smolin: "Loop space representation for quantum general relativity" Nuclear Physics B331, 80 (1990)
  11. C Rovelli: "What is observable in classical and quantum gravity?'' Classical and Quantum Gravity 8, 297 (1991)
  12. C Rovelli: "Quantum reference systems'' Classical and Quantum Gravity 8, 317 (1991)
  13. C Rovelli: "Quantum mechanics without time: a model" Physical Review D42, 2638 (1991)
  14. C Rovelli: "Time in quantum gravity: an hypothesis" Physical Review D43, 442 (1991)
  15. C Rovelli: "Ashtekar formulation of general relativity and loop space non-perturbative Quantum Gravity: a report" Invited review paper. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 8, 1613-1675 (1991)
  16. A Ashtekar, C Rovelli, L Smolin: "Gravitons and loops" Physical Review D44, 1740 (1991)
  17. C Rovelli: "Quantum evolving constants" Physical Review D44, 1339 (1991)
  18. C Kozameh, T Newman, C Rovelli: "On Radiation in a Schwarzschild background" Physical Review D44, 551 (1991)
  19. J Goldberg, T Newman, C Rovelli: "On Hamiltonian systems with first class constraints" Journal of Mathematical Physics 32, 2739-2743 (1991)
  20. D Boyanowski, T Newman, C Rovelli: "Quantization of dynamical systems with a Chern-Simon term" Physical Review D45, 1210 (1992)
  21. C Rovelli: "Knot theory spacetime" Feature Article in the 1992 edition of the "Year-Book of Science and Technology" of the Encyclopedia Britannica
  22. A Ashtekar, C Rovelli: "Connections, loops and quantum general relativity" Classical and Quantum Gravity 9, 3 (1992)
  23. A Ashtekar, C Rovelli: "Loop representation of Maxwell field'' Classical and Quantum Gravity 9, 1121 (1992)
  24. A Ashtekar, C Rovelli, L Smolin, "Self duality and quantization" Journal of Geometry and Physics 8, 7 (1992)
  25. A Ashtekar, C Rovelli, L Smolin: "Weaving a classical metric with quantum threads" Physical Review Letters 69, 237 (1992)
  26. ET Newman, C Rovelli: "Generalized lines of force as the gauge invariant degrees of freedom for general relativity and Yang-Mills theory" Physical Review Letters 69, 1300 (1992)
  27. C Rovelli: "Area is the length of Ashtekar's triad field" Physical Review D 47, 1703 (1993)
  28. J Iwasaki, C Rovelli: "Gravitons as Embroidery on the Weave" International Journal of Modern Physics D1, 533 (1993)
  29. C Rovelli: "Statistical mechanics of gravity and thermodynamical origin of time" Classical and Quantum Gravity, 10, 1549 (1993)
  30. C Rovelli: "The statistical state of the universe" Classical and Quantum Gravity, 10, pg 1567 (1993)
  31. C Rovelli: "A generally covariant quantum field theory and a prediction on quantum measurements of geometry" Nuclear Physics B405, 797 (1993)
  32. C Rovelli: "Basis of the Ponzano-Regge-Turaev-Viro-Ooguri quantum gravity model is the loop representation basis'' Physical Review D48, 2702 (1993)
  33. J Lewandowski, ET Newmann, C Rovelli: "Variation of the parallalel propagator and holonomy operator and the Gauss law constraint" Journal of Mathematical Physics 34, 4646 (1993)
  34. C Rovelli and L Smolin: "The physical hamiltonian in nonperturbative quantum gravity" Physical Review Letters 72, 446 (1994)
  35. H Morales-Tecotl, C Rovelli: "Fermions in Quantum Gravity" Physical Review Letters 72, 3642 (1994)
  36. A Connes and C Rovelli: "Von Neumann algebra automorphisms and time versus thermodynamics relation in general covariant quantum theories" Classical and Quantum Gravity, 11, 2899 (1994)
  37. J Iwasaki, C Rovelli: "Gravitons from loops: non-perturbative loop-space quantum gravity contains the graviton-physics approximation" Classical and Quantum Gravity 11, 1653 (1994)
  38. C Rovelli: "On the Aharonov-Anandan-Vaidam experiment" Physical Review A, 50 (1994)
  39. S Frittelli, S Koshti, T Newman, C Rovelli: "Classical and quantum Faraday Lines" Physical Review D49 (1994) 6883
  40. C Rovelli: "Analysis of the different meaning of the concept of time in different physical theories" Il Nuovo Cimento, to appear.
  41. R Depietri and C Rovelli: "Eigenalues of the Weyl operator as diffeomorphism invariant variables in General Relativity" Classical and Quantum Gravity 12, 1279 (1995)
  42. C Bicchieri and C Rovelli: "Evolution and Revolution; catastrophy theory and the dynamics of norms" Rationality and Society 7, 201 (1995)
  43. C Rovelli and L Smolin: "Discreteness of Area and Volume in Quantum Gravity" Nuclear Physics B 442, 593 (1995)
  44. C Rovelli: "Outline of a General Covariant Quantum Field Theory and a Quantum Theory of Gravity" Journal of Mathematical Physics, November (1995) Paper awarded by a honorable mention from the Gravity Research Foundation.
  45. H Morales-Tecotl and C Rovelli: "Fermions in the Loop Representation of Quantum Gravity" Nuclear Physics B 451, 325 (1995).
  46. C Rovelli and L Smolin:"Spin Networks and Quantum Gravity" Physical Review D 53, 5743 (1995); gr-qc/9505006.
  47. N Grott and C Rovelli: ``Moduli spaces structure of knots with intersections", Journal of Mathematical Physics, 37, 3014 (1996).
  48. C Rovelli: ``Relational Quantum Mechanics", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 35, 1637 (1996)
  49. R DePietri and C Rovelli: ``Geometry Eigenvalues and Scalar Product from Recoupling Theory in Loop Quantum Gravity", Physical Review D54 (1996) 2664.
  50. C Bicchieri, ME Pollack, C Rovelli, I Tsamardinos: ``The Potential for Evolution of Cooperation among Web Agents", International Journal of Human--Computer Studies, 48 (1998) 9-29.
  51. M Barreira, M Carfora, C Rovelli: ``Physics with Loop Quantum Gravity: Radiation from  Quantum Black Hole".
  52. General Relativity and Gravitation, 28 (1996) 1293.  Second Award of the Gravity Research Foundation, 1996;  gr-qc/9603064.
  53. N Grott, C Rovelli and RS Tate: ``Time-of-arrival in quantum mechanics", Physical Review A 54 (1996) 4679; quant-ph/9603021.
  54. S Frittelli, L Lehner, C Rovelli: ``The complete spectrum of the area from recoupling theory in loop quantum gravity '', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 13 (1996) 2921.
  55. C Rovelli: ``Loop Quantum Gravity and Black Hole Physics", Helvetica Physica Acta, 69 (1996) 582; gr-qc/9608032.
  56. C Rovelli: ``Half way through the woods'', in {\it The Cosmos of Science}, J Earman and JD Norton editors, (University of Pittsburgh Press and Universit\"ats Verlag Konstanz,1997).
  57. S Frittelli, C Kozameh, ET Newman, C Rovelli and RS Tate: ``Fuzzy spacetime points from the null-surface formulation of general relativity", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14 (1997) A143.
  58. N Grott, C Rovelli: ``Weave states in loop quantum gravity'', General Relativity and Gravitation, 29 (1997) 1039.
  59. C Rovelli: ``Quantum gravity as a `sum over surfaces' `' , Nuclear Physics B (Proc Suppl) 57 (1997) 28-43.
  60. M Reisenberger, C Rovelli: ``Sum over Surfaces Form of Loop Quantum Gravity'', Physical Review D56 (1997) 3490-3508; gr-qc/9612035.
  61. C Rovelli: ``Black Hole Entropy from Loop Quantum Gravity", Physical Review Letter 14, pg 3288 (1996).
  62. S Frittelli, C Kozameh, ET Newman, C Rovelli and RS Tate: ``Quantization of the null-surface formulation of general relativity", Physical Review D56 (1997) 889-907.
  63. G Landi, C Rovelli: ``General Relativity in terms of Dirac Eigenvalues'', Physical Review Letters, 78 (1997) 3051; gr-qc/9612034.
  64. R Borissov, R DePietri, C Rovelli: ``Matrix elements of Thiemann hamiltonian'', Classical and Quantum Gravity 14 (1997) 2793; gr-qc/97703090
  65. C Rovelli, T Thiemann: ``The Immirzi parameter in quantum general relativity'', Physical Review D57 (1998) 1009-1014; gr-qc/9705059.
  66. C Rovelli: ``Loop Quantum Gravity'' Living Reviews in Relativity (refereed electronic journal), invited review paper. http://www.livingreviews.org/ Articles/Volume1/1998-1rovelli; gr-qc/9709008.
  67. C Rovelli: `` `Incerto tempore, incertisque loci' : Can we compute the exact time at which the quantum measurement happens?'', Foundations of Physics, 28 (1998) 1031-1043; quant-ph/9802020
  68. G Landi, C Rovelli: ``Gravity from Dirac Eigenvalues'', Modern Physics Letters A13 (1998) 479-494; gr-qc/9708041
  69. C Rovelli: ``What is a gauge transformation in quantum mechanics?'', Physical Review Letters 80 (1998) 4613; gr-qc/9711028
  70. C Rovelli: ``Strings, loops and others: a critical survey of the present approaches to quantum gravity'' in {\it Gravitation and Relativity: At the turn of the Millenium}, N Dadhich J Narlikar eds, pg 281-331 (Inter-University centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 1998); gr-qc/9803024.
  71. M Montesinos, C Rovelli: ``The fermionic contribution to the spectrum of the area operator in nonperturbative quantum gravity'', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 15 (1998) 3795-3801; gr-qc/9806120.
  72. C Rovelli and P Upadhya: ``Loop quantum gravity and quanta of space: a primer'', gr-qc/9806079.
  73. C Rovelli: ``The projector on physical states in loop quantum gravity'', Physical Review D59 (1999) 104015; gr-qc/9806121.
  74. M Montesinos, Carlo Rovelli and Thomas Thiemann: ``An $SL(2,R)$ model of constrained systems with two hamiltonian constraints'', Physical Review D60 (1999) 044009; gr-qc/9901073.
  75. C Rovelli: ``Quantum Spacetime: what do we know?'', in {Physics meets Philosophy at the Planck length},  C Callender N Hugget eds, Cambridge University Press 1999; gr-qc/9903045.
  76. C Rovelli: ``Erratum: What is a gauge transformation in quantum mechanics?'', Physical Review Letters 81 (1998) 4530.
  77. C Rovelli: ``Spectral noncommutative geometry and quantization: a simple example'' gr-qc/9904029.
  78. J Louko, C Rovelli: ``Refined Algebraic Quantization in the oscillator representation of SL(2,R)''Journal of Mathematical Physics 41 (2000) 132-155; gr-qc/9907004.
  79. C Rovelli: ``Spectral noncommutative geometry and quantization'' Physical Review Letters, 83 (1999) 1079.
  80. R DePietri, L Freidel, K Krasnov, C Rovelli: ``Barret-Crane model from a Boulatov-Ooguri field theory over a homogeneous space'', Nuclear Physics, to appear;  hep-th/9907154.
  81. C Rovelli: ``The century of the incomplete revolution: searching for general relativistic quantum field theory''Journal of Mathematical Physics, Special Issue 2000; invited contribution; hep-th/9910131.
  82. M Gaul, C Rovelli: ``Loop Quantum Gravity and the Meaning of Diffeomorphism Invariance'' Lectures given at the 35th Karpacz Winter School on Theoretical Physics: From Cosmology to Quantum Gravity; gr-qc/9910079.
  83. M Montesinos, C Rovelli: ``Statistical mechanics of generally covariant quantum theories: A Boltzmann-like approach"; gr-qc/0002024.
  84. M Reisenberger, C Rovelli: ``Spin foams as Feynman diagrams"; gr-qc/0002083.
  85. M Reisenberger, C Rovelli: ``Spacetime as a Feynmann diagram: the connection formulation"; gr-qc/0002095.
II. Invited talks at international conferences (updated to 1995)
  1. "A new approach to quantum gravity" International conference on General Relativity and Cosmology, Goa, India 1988
  2. "Loop representation in quantum gravity, the transform approach" Osgood Hill conference on conceptual problems of quantum gravity, Boston 1988 Published in "Conceptual problems of quantum gravity" Eds A Ashtekar and J Stachel (Birkhauser, New York, 1991)
  3. "Is there incompatibility between the ways time is treated in general relativity and in standard quantum mechanics?'' Osgood Hill conference on conceptual problems of quantum gravity, Boston 1988 Published in Conceptual problems of quantum gravity, op. cit.
  4. "The Transform Approach to the Loop Representation" Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Cavalese, Italy August 1988
  5. "Knots are fundamental states of quantum gravity" Twelfth John Hopkins workshop on current problems in high energy particle theory, Firenze 1989
  6. "Loop Representation in Quantum Gravity'' 12th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Boulder, Colorado, July 1989
  7. "Holonomies and quantum gravity" Recent advances in general relativity, Pittsburgh, May 1990. Published in Recent advances in General Relativity, eds A I Janis and J R Porter, Birkhauser, Boston 1991
  8. "Canonical Quanum Gravity" International Workshop on Gravitation, Banff, Canada, August 1990
  9. "Gravitoni e ricami" Congresso nazionale di Relativita' Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione, Capri, Italia, September 1990
  10. "Solutions of the Wheeler DeWitt equation" Journees Relativistes, Cargese, Corsica, May 1991
  11. "Narada's Quest: \ \ Conceptual problems and present approaches to Quantum Gravity'' International conference of Gravitation and Cosmology, Amedabhad, India, December 1991. Published in "Advances in gravitation and cosmology", eds B R Iyer, A R Prasanna R K Varma C V Vishveshwara, Wiley Eastern Ltd, New Delhi 1993
  12. "Canonical classical and quantum gravity" Series of lectures, Workshop on Gravitation, Cochin, India, December 1991
  13. "The complete set of canonical diffeomorphism invariant observables of General Relativity" GR13, Cordoba, Argentina, 26-30 June 1992
  14. "Time from Thermodynamics?" GR13, Cordoba, Argentina, 26-30 June 1992
  15. "A Physical Prediction from Quantum Gravity" Congresso nazionale di Relativita' Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione, Bardonecchia, Italia, 2-5 September 1992
  16. "A prediction from Quantum Gravity" IInd Texas/Pascos International conference on High-Energy Physics and Astrophysics, Berkeley, California, 12-16 December 1992
  17. "Half way through the woods" Center for the Phylosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, Lecture Annual Series, December 1993.
  18. "Canonical Quantum General Relativity" Meeting on Quantum Gravity, Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, July 1994
  19. "Hamilton-Jacoby theory for constrained systems and gauge invariant degrees of freedom in general relativity and Yang-Mills theory" "Constraint Theory and Quantization", Siena, Italy August 1994. Proceedings Eds F Colomo, L Lusanna G Marmo, World Scientific 1994
  20. "Evolution in nonperturbative quantum gravity", 3 lectures Workshop on Canonical and Quantum Gravity, Stephen Banach Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Pland, May 1995.
  21. "Loop Representation, recent results" Invited plenary talk at the "Topical meeting on constrained systems and Quantum Gravity", Dubna, Russia, July 1995.
  22. "The role of constrained systems theory in fundamental physics" Conference overview and closing remarks at the "Topical meeting on constrained systems and Quantum Gravity", Dubna, Russia, July 1995.
  23. "Is there any view of spacetime compatible with today's physics?" Invited speaker (panelist) at the 1996 International Fellows Conference of the Center for Philosophy of Science, Castiglioncello, May 1996
  24. "Nonperturbative Quantum Gravity with Loops" Plenary lecture at the "Journe\'ees Relativistes" Ascona, Switzerland, May 1995
V. Other scientific production
  1. C Rovelli: "Teoria dei Campi nello Spazio dei Sistemi di Riferimento" Thesis Bologna 1981
  2. E Omerti, C Rovelli: "A lattice formulation of the interacting Boson gas" Unpublished, 1983
  3. C Rovelli: "Fantasmi nelle teorie gravitazionali con un campo scalare" Atti del VI convegno nazionale di Relativita' Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione Firenze 1984
  4. C Rovelli: "Diffeomorphisms invariance in canonical General Relativity and in Quantum Gravity" Acts of the GR11, Stockholm 1986
  5. C Rovelli: "Superconduttori in campi gravitazionali relativistici" Unpublished, 1986
  6. C Rovelli: "Two new Lagrangians for general relativity" Unpublished, 1986
  7. C Rovelli: "Continous tensor products in Quantum Gravity" Atti del VII convegno nazionale di Relativita' Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione, Rapallo, 1986
  8. M Cerdonio, GA Prodi, C Rovelli, S Vitale: "Feasibility of Laboratory detection of rotation-like gravitational fields" Acts of the GR11, Stockholm 1986
  9. M Bonaldi, M Cerdonio, P Faleri, G Prodi, C Rovelli, S Vitale: "Feasibility of detection of curl h gravitational fields", atti del VII convegno nazionale di Relativita' Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione Rapallo 1986
  10. C Rovelli: "Sulla quantizzazione della teoria della gravit\`a", Ph D Thesis, Trento, 1987
  11. C Rovelli: "Time in quantum gravity" Rome University preprint, unpublished, March 1988
  12. C Rovelli, L Smolin: "Loop representation for Yang Mills theories: Lattice'' Syracuse University preprint, unpublished (1989)
  13. C Rovelli: "Loop representation for Yang Mills theories: Continuum'' University of Roma preprint, unpublished (1989)
VI. Recent seminars (updated to 1995)
  1. "Non perturbative quantum gravity; status and perspectives", Universite' de Marseille, Luminy, France, June 1995
  2. "Risultati recenti in gravita' non perturbativa", Universita' di Trento, Italy, May 1995
  3. "C${}^*$ Algebras and the Origin of Time", Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, State College, Usa, November 1994
  4. "Generally covariant quantum field theory", Max Planck Institute, M\"unich, Germany, November 1994
  5. "The Loop Representation of Quantum Gravity", Institute Isaac Newton, Cambridge, England, February 1994
  6. "Quantum Gravity", University of Oxford, England, February 1994
  7. "On the Ponzano-Regge model", University of Nottingham, England, February 1994
  8. "The Loop Representation of Quantum Gravity", Imperial College, London England, January 1994
  9. "Physical Hamiltonian in Quantum Gravity", University of Maryland, October 1993
  10. "What does present days physics tell us about Time and Space ?", Annual Lecture at the Center for the Philosophy of Science Pittsburgh University, 16 September 1993
  11. "The recent developments in Quantum gravity", University of Chicago Chicago, 16 April 1993
  12. "Quantum Gravity in the Loop Representation and Microstructure of space-time", Princeton University, Princeton USA, 21 February 92
  13. "A non-perturbative approach to Quantum Gravity", Instituto de Pesquetas Fisicas, Rio di Janeiro, Brasile 18 July 1992
  14. "A Generally covariant quantum field theory", Syracuse University, Syracuse, NewYork, USA 15 September 1992
  15. "The Hamilton-Jacobi solutions of General Relativity", University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, 12 April 1992
  16. "Knots and Quantum Geometry", Foundations of Physics-meeting, Sarasota, Florida, USA, 22 March 1992
  17. "Loop Representation of Quantum gravity", Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, 26 May 1992
VII. Thesis supervised
  1. Josè Balduz (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)\\ Completed November 1994 "Dynamical Model of Quantum Measurement"
  2. Hugo Morales-Tecotl (SISSA, Trieste)\\ Completed August 1993 "Fermions in the Loop Representation"
  3. Junichi Iwasaki (University of Pittsburgh)\\ Completed Jannuary 1994 "The Linearization of Quantum gravity"
  4. Norbert Grott (University of Pittsburgh) "Moduli spaces in intersecting Knot Theory"
  5. Marcelo Bareira (University of Pittsburgh) "Black hole emission spectra"
  6. Alejandro Perez (University of Cordoba) "Renormalization in spin foam models"
  7. Cerdic Dohr (Université de le Mediterrané) "Loop quantum gravity"
Carlo Rovelli (rovelli@cpt.univ-mrs.fr)