Back reaction on the topological degrees of freedom in (2+1)-dimensional spacetime

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1889-1906

  Seriu, Masafumi ^a,b  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0040085529     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.1889     Document Type: Article

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