How the Jones polynomial gives rise to physical states of quantum general relativity (Q1207725)
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How the Jones polynomial gives rise to physical states of quantum general relativity (English)
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23 May 1993
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The main purpose of this essay is to show that, quite surprisingly, there exists a connection between knot theory and quantum gravity also at the dynamical level. The authors exhibit a solution to all constraints of quantum gravity with a cosmological constant in the loop representation related to the Jones polynomial and they indicate how this one solution gives rise to an infinite new set of vacuum solutions.
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knot theory
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quantum gravity
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Jones polynomial
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