The solution space of 2 + 1 gravity on in Witten's connection formulation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/11/2/005MaRDI QIDQ4286948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jorma Louko, Donald Marolf

Publication date 1 September 1994

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9308018

zbMATH Keywords

gauge groupquantizationsnon-Hausdorff base space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We investigate the space $calM$ of classical solutions to Witten's formulation of 2+1 gravity on the manifold $$. $calM$ is connected, unlike the spaces of classical solutions in the cases where $T^2$ is replaced by a higher genus surface. Although $calM$ is neither Hausdorff nor a manifold, removing from $calM$ a set of measure zero yields a manifold which is naturally viewed as the cotangent bundle over a non-Hausdorff base space~$calB$. We discuss the relation of the various parts of $calM$ to spacetime metrics, and various possibilities of quantizing~$calM$. There exist quantizations in which the exponentials of certain momentum operators, when operating on states whose support is entirely on the part of $calB$ corresponding to conventional spacetime metrics, give states whose support is entirely outside this part of~$calB$. Similar results hold when the gauge group ${mSO}_0(2,1)$ is replaced by $mSU(1,1)$.

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