Random Geometries in Quantum Gravity
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Acknowledgements It is a pleasure to thank Jan Ambjrn for always inspiring and stimulating supervision and collaboration. I am also grateful for the valuable and fruitful collaboration that I have had with Jerzy Jurkiewicz and Yuri Makeenko as well as Zdzisek Burda and Leonid Chekhov. Finally the positive atmosphere and the support that I have experienced in the high energy theory group at NBI is greatly appreciated.
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