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Solving The N-Body Problem in (2+1)-Gravity

arXiv:hep-th/9511207 · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00031-4

Abstract

We construct a non-perturbative, single-valued solution for the metric and the motion of $N$ interacting particles in $2 + 1$ -Gravity. The solution is explicit for two particles with any speed and for any number of particles with small speed. It is based on a mapping from multivalued Minkowskian coordinates to single-valued ones, which solves the non-abelian monodromies due to particles' momenta. The two and three-body cases are treated in detail.

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