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hep-th1991★ 12 cited
Three-Dimensional Gravity and String Ghosts
S. Carlip, I. I. Kogan
It is known that much of the structure of string theory can be derived from three-dimensional topological field theory and gravity. We show here that, at least for simple topologie…
hep-th1991★ 48 cited
(2+1)-Dimensional Chern-Simons Gravity as a Dirac Square Root
Steven Carlip
For (2+1)-dimensional spacetimes with the spatial topology of a torus, the transformation between the Chern-Simons and ADM versions of quantum gravity is constructed explicitly, an…