Towards a covariant canonical formulation for closed topological defects without boundaries

Abstract

On the basis of the covariant description of the canonical formalism for quantization, we present the basic elements of the symplectic geometry for a restricted class of topological defects propagating on a curved background spacetime. We discuss the future extensions of the present results.

LaTeX, 12 pages, submitted to Phys. Lett. B. (2002)

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