A Comment on the Degrees of Freedom in the Ashtekar Formulation for 2+1 Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2017-03-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We show that the recent claim that the 2+1 dimensional Ashtekar formulation for General Relativity has a finite number of physical degrees of freedom is not correct.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9909036,
title = {A Comment on the Degrees of Freedom in the Ashtekar Formulation for 2+1 Gravity},
author = {J. Fernando Barbero and Madhavan Varadarajan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9909036},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6 pages LaTex, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity