Canonical Theory of 2+1 Gravity

Abstract

Recently 2+1 dimensional gravity theory, especially $\mathrm{Ad}{\mathrm{S}}_3$ has been studied extensively. It was shown to be equivalent to the 2+1 Chern-Simon theory and has been investigated to understand the black hole thermodynamics, i.e. Hawking temperature and others. The purpose of this report is to investigate the canonical formalism of the original 2+1 Einstein gravity theory instead of the Chern-Simon theory. For the spherically symmetric space-time, local conserved quantities(local mass and angular momentum) are introduced and using them canonical quantum theory is defined. Constraints are imposed on state vectors and solved analytically. The strategy to obtain the solution is followed by our previous work.

6 pages, talk given at LLWI-2000: From Particles to Universe, Alberta, 20-26 February 2000