Gravitating topological matter in 2+1 dimensions
- 15 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 44 (2) , 424-428
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.44.424
Abstract
We study topological matter minimally coupled to gravity in 2+1 dimensions. We show that the resulting system has a finite-dimensional physical phase space that can be exactly quantized. The model exhibits the mixing of "gravity" and "matter" degrees of freedom, and the impossibility of treating them independently.Keywords
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