@article{7e8c50056d0e44cebdf39a26fa4debeb,
title = "Symmetry reduced loop quantum gravity: A bird's eye view",
abstract = "This is a brief overview of the current status of symmetry reduced models in Loop Quantum Gravity. The goal is to provide an introduction to other more specialized and detailed reviews that follow. Since most of this work is motivated by the physics of the very early universe, I will focus primarily on Loop Quantum Cosmology and discuss quantum aspects of black holes only briefly.",
author = "Abhay Ashtekar",
note = "Funding Information: Over the years, I have profited by discussions on the subject of this review with a large number of colleagues. I would especially like to thank Ivan Agullo, Aurelien Barrau, Alejandro Corichi, Brajesh Gupt, Wojciech Kaminski, Jerzy Lewandowski, William Nelson, Thomasz Pawlowski, Parampreet Singh and Edward Wilson-Ewing. Because this is an overview, there is inevitable overlap with several research articles as well as reviews I have written on this subject, in particular, [1, 3, 100, 101]. This work was supported in part by the NSF grant PHY-1505411 and by the Eberly endowment funds at Penn State. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 World Scientific Publishing Company.",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1142/S0218271816420104",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "25",
journal = "International Journal of Modern Physics D",
issn = "0218-2718",
publisher = "World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd",
number = "8",
}