Would two dimensions be world enough for spacetime?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.12.004zbMath1395.83010arXiv1709.07438OpenAlexW2760335443MaRDI QIDQ1672359

Mike D. Schneider, James Owen Weatherall, Samuel Craig Fletcher, John Byron Manchak

Publication date: 7 September 2018

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07438

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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