The torus universe in the polygon approach to (2 + 1)-dimensional gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/4/010MaRDI QIDQ4340975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Max Welling

Publication date 15 October 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9606011

zbMATH Keywords

spacetime slicing(2+1)-gravitypolygon approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: In this paper we describe the matter-free toroidal spacetime in 't Hooft's polygon approach to 2+1-dimensional gravity (i.e. we consider the case without any particles present). Contrary to earlier results in the literature we find that it is not possible to describe the torus by just one polygon but we need at least two polygons. We also show that the constraint algebra of the polygons closes.

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