Use of meanders and train tracks for description of defects and textures in liquid crystals and \(2+1\) gravity

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(99)00039-XzbMath0961.83016arXivhep-th/9901040OpenAlexW3100719401MaRDI QIDQ1972278

Arkady L. Kholodenko

Publication date: 6 June 2001

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901040

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityWheeler-DeWitt equationquantum mechanics2+1 gravityhomeomorphisms of two-dimensional surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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