Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 459290, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/459290
Research Article

Black Hole Interior from Loop Quantum Gravity

Department of Physics, Bologna University, and INFN Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Received 10 September 2008; Accepted 16 November 2008

Academic Editor: K. S. Viswanathan

Copyright © 2008 Leonardo Modesto. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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