The phase space of (2+1)-dimensional gravity in the Ashtekar formulation

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90121-XMaRDI QIDQ1967646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Fernando Barbero G., Madhavan Varadarajan

Publication date 6 March 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9307006

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The Ashtekar formulation of 2+1 gravity differs from the geometrodynamical and Witten descriptions when the 2-metric is degenerate. We study the phase space of 2+1 gravity in the Ashtekar formulation to understand these degenerate solutions to the field equations. In the process we find two new systems of first class constraints which describe part of the degenerate sectors of the Ashtekar formulation. One of them also generalizes the Witten constraints. Finally we argue that the Ashtekar formulation has an arbitrarily large number of degrees of freedom in contrast to the usual descriptions. TO GET THE FIGURES CONTACT Barbero@suhep.phy.syr.edu or Madhavan@suhep.phy.syr.edu

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• Homogeneous \((2+1)\)-dimensional gravity in the Ashtekar formulation
• The degenerate sector of Ashtekar's phase space.
• Analogue gravity
• The Einstein-Vlasov system/kinetic theory
• On diffeomorphism invariance for lattice theories

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