Semiclassical Partition Functions for Gravity with Cosmic Strings
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
In this paper we describe an approach to construct semiclassical partition functions in gravity which are complete in the sense that they contain a complete description of the differentiable structures of the underlying 4-manifold. In addition, we find our construction naturally includes cosmic strings. We discuss some possible applications of the partition functions in the fields of both quantum gravity and topological string theory
Cite
@article{arxiv.1301.0016,
title = {Semiclassical Partition Functions for Gravity with Cosmic Strings},
author = {Christopher L. Duston},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0016},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, 2 figures, revisions of examples