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Aaron Bergman  
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 More options Oct 25 2002, 1:45 pm
Newsgroups: sci.physics.research, sci.physics
From: Aaron Bergman <aberg...@princeton.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:30:10 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Fri, Oct 25 2002 1:30 pm
Subject: Re: Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?
In article <ap7tq6$em...@glue.ucr.edu>, b...@galaxy.ucr.edu (John Baez)
wrote:

> Grichka Bogdanov and Igor Bogdanov,
> Topological field theory of the initial singularity of spacetime,
> Classical and Quantum Gravity 18 (2001), 4341-4372.

I took a look at this one:

<http://www.iop.org/EJ/S/3/492/abstract/0264-9381/18/21/301/>

and the referee clearly didn't even glance at it.  I particularly like:

> Definition 1.2: A theory if topological if (the Lagrangian L being
> non-trivial) it does not depend on L.

I also like the part where they put a Tr(-1)^n in the path integral.
Given that a number of terms are used incorrectly on the first few
pages, this seems to be quite an indictment of the refereeing process.

I can't say I'm completely surprised that something like this could
happen. I'm surprised that they got CQG, though.

Aaron
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Aaron Bergman
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