Symmetries and observables in topological gravity
arXiv:gr-qc/0402036 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/14/014
Abstract
After a brief review of topological gravity, we present a superspace approach to this theory. This formulation allows us to recover in a natural manner various known results and to gain some insight into the precise relationship between different approaches to topological gravity. Though the main focus of our work is on the vielbein formalism, we also discuss the metric approach and its relationship with the former formalism.
34 pages; a few explanations added in subsection 2.2.1, published version of paper
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