Witten's 2 + 1 gravity on (Klein bottle)

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/10/006MaRDI QIDQ4853377zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jorma Louko

Publication date 3 December 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9505026

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationmoduli space of flat connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometric quantization (53D50) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: Witten's formulation of 2+1 gravity is investigated on the nonorientable three-manifold R x (Klein bottle). The gauge group is taken to consist of all four components of the 2+1 Poincare group. We analyze in detail several components of the classical solution space, and we show that from four of the components one can recover nondegenerate spacetime metrics. In particular, from one component we recover metrics for which the Klein bottles are spacelike. An action principle is formulated for bundles satisfying a certain orientation compatibility property, and the corresponding components of the classical solution space are promoted into a phase space. Avenues towards quantization are briefly discussed.

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• Quantum gravity in \(2+1\) dimensions: the case of a closed universe
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