Using 3D string-inspired gravity to understand the Thurston conjecture

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/4/031MaRDI QIDQ4466987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. Gegenberg, Gabor Kunstatter

Publication date 8 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306279

zbMATH Keywords

Birkhoff theoremRicci flow equationsMaxwell-Chern-Simons field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: We present a string inspired 3D Euclidean field theory as the starting point for a modified Ricci flow analysis of the Thurston conjecture. In addition to the metric, the theory contains a dilaton, an antisymmetric tensor field and a Maxwell-Chern Simons field. For constant dilaton, the theory appears to obey a Birkhoff theorem which allows only nine possible classes of solutions, depending on the signs of the parameters in the action. Eight of these correspond to the eight Thurston geometries, while the ninth describes the metric of a squashed three sphere. It therefore appears that one can construct modified Ricci flow equations in which the topology of the geometry is encoded in the parameters of an underlying field theory.

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