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The recent formulation of locally covariant quantum field theory may open the way towards a background independent perturbative formulation of Quantum Gravity.
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Brunetti, R., Fredenhagen, K. (2006). Towards a Background Independent Formulation of Perturbative Quantum Gravity. In: Fauser, B., Tolksdorf, J., Zeidler, E. (eds) Quantum Gravity. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7978-0_8
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