Would two dimensions be world enough for spacetime?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.12.004zbMath1395.83010arXiv1709.07438MaRDI QIDQ1672359

Samuel Craig Fletcher, James Owen Weatherall, John Byron Manchak, Mike D. Schneider

Publication date: 7 September 2018

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07438

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83C47: Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory

83C80: Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions