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Phys. Rev. D 44, 424–428 (1991)

Gravitating topological matter in 2+1 dimensions

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S. Carlip
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616

J. Gegenberg
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3

Received 25 February 1991; published in the issue dated 15 July 1991

We study topological matter minimally coupled to gravity in 2+1 dimensions. We show that the resulting system has a finite-dimensional physical phase space that can be exactly quantized. The model exhibits the mixing of "gravity" and "matter" degrees of freedom, and the impossibility of treating them independently.

© 1991 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.44.424
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