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arxiv: gr-qc/9403041 · v1 · submitted 1994-03-21 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

Global structure of Witten's 2+1 gravity on {bf R}times T²

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keywords manifoldconnectedgravityspacetimeswittenavenuesbase
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We investigate the space ${\cal M}$ of classical solutions to Witten's formulation of 2+1 gravity on the manifold ${\bf R} \times T^2$. ${\cal M}$ is connected, but neither Hausdorff nor a manifold. However, removing from ${\cal M}$ a set of measure zero yields a connected manifold which is naturally viewed as the cotangent bundle over a non-Hausdorff base space. Avenues towards quantizing the theory are discussed in view of the relation between spacetime metrics and the various parts of~${\cal M}$. (Contribution to the proceedings of the Lanczos Centenary Conference, Raleigh, NC, December 12--17, 1993.)

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