A comment on the degrees of freedom in the Ashtekar formulation for 2 + 1 gravity  

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11268/5812
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/16/11/401

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1999

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Barbero, J. Fernando
Varadarajan, Madhavan

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We show that the recent claim that the (2 + 1)-dimensional Ashtekar formulation for general relativity has a finite number of physical degrees of freedom is incorrect.

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Astrofísica
Astronomía

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Barbero, J. F., & Varadarajan, M. (1999). A comment on the degrees of freedom in the Ashtekar formulation for 2+ 1 gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity,16(11).

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