TOPOLOGY CHANGES IN (2+1)-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM-GRAVITY

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作者
FUJIWARA, Y
HIGUCHI, S
HOSOYA, A
MISHIMA, T
SIINO, M
机构
[1] Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152, Oh-Okayama Meguro-ku
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1991年 / 44卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.44.1763
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We study topology-changing processes in (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity with a negative cosmological constant. By playing the "gluing-many-polyhedra game" for hyperbolic geometry, we explicitly construct an infinite number of different instantonlike solutions. These solutions can be used to evaluate various topology-changing amplitudes in the WKB approximation.
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页码:1763 / 1768
页数:6
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