Loop variables in topological gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/11/4/008MaRDI QIDQ4296216zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 3 November 1994

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9307031

zbMATH Keywords

3D Einstein gravityBF theoryloop variablestopological gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) General relativity (83C99)

Abstract: We examine the relationship between covariant and canonical (Ashtekar/Rovelli/Smolin) loop variables in the context of BF type topological field theories in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions, with respective gauge groups SO(2,1) and SO(3,1). The latter model can be considered as the simplest topological gravity theory in 3+1 dimensions. We carry out the canonical quantization of this model in both the connection and loop representations, for the two spatial topologies $T^3$ and $S^{2}imes{S}^1$.

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