Global structure of Witten's 2+1 gravity on ${\bf R}\times T^2$
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We investigate the space of classical solutions to Witten's formulation of 2+1 gravity on the manifold . is connected, but neither Hausdorff nor a manifold. However, removing from a set of measure zero yields a connected manifold which is naturally viewed as the cotangent bundle over a non-Hausdorff base space. Avenues towards quantizing the theory are discussed in view of the relation between spacetime metrics and the various parts of~. (Contribution to the proceedings of the Lanczos Centenary Conference, Raleigh, NC, December 12--17, 1993.)
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9403041,
title = {Global structure of Witten's 2+1 gravity on ${\bf R}\times T^2$},
author = {Jorma Louko and Donald Marolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9403041},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, LaTeX. CGPG-94/3-2, WISC-MILW-94-TH-12