Combinatorial solutions to the Hamiltonian constraint in (2+1)-dimensional Ashtekar gravity

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 459, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 355-390

  Ezawa, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

(2+1) dimensional gravity; Ashtekar's formalism; Dirac's quantization; Hamiltonian constraint; Spin network states

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030583934     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(95)00557-9     Document Type: Article

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