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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.

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@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}
}

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6 pages LaTex, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity