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Quantum Gravity and Equivariant Cohomology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A procedure for obtaining correlation function densities and wavefunctionals for quantum gravity from the Donaldson polynomial invariants of topological quantum field theories, is given. We illustrate how our procedure may be applied to three and four dimensional quantum gravity. Detailed expressions, derived from \sbft{}, are given in the three dimensional case. A procedure for normalizing these wavefunctionals is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9407177,
  title  = {Quantum Gravity and Equivariant Cohomology},
  author = {R. Brooks and G. Lifschytz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9407177},
  year   = {2009}
}

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CTP-2340, 30 pgs., LaTeX Certain points are further elaborated on, typo's are corrected and one reference and acknowledgment added