Canonical formulation of Poincaré BFCG theory and its quantization

DOI10.1007/s10714-015-1900-xzbMath1328.83145arXiv1409.3751OpenAlexW3098066390WikidataQ57602547 ScholiaQ57602547MaRDI QIDQ2353198

Aleksandar Miković, Miguel A. Oliveira

Publication date: 8 July 2015

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3751

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravitycanonical formulation2-Poincaré groupBFCG theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10)

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Higher Chern-Simons based on (2-)crossed modules ⋮ Higher gauge theories based on 3-groups ⋮ Hamiltonian analysis of the BFCG formulation of general relativity ⋮ Topological invariant of 4-manifolds based on a 3-group ⋮ Gauge symmetry of the 3BF theory for a generic semistrict Lie three-group

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