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(2+1)-dimensional gravity over a two-holed torus, T²#T²
1993
Research into the relationships between General Relativity, topology, and gauge theory has, for the most part, produced abstract mathematical results. This thesis is an attempt to bring these powerful theories down to the level of explicit geometric examples. Much progress has recently been made in relating Chern-Simons gauge field theory to (2+1)-dimensional gravity over topologically non-trivial surfaces. Starting from the dreibe informalism, we reduce the Einstein action, a functional of
doi:10.14288/1.0079677
fatcat:wy46mvluyre5zhdptd3e3gxg7u