QUANTUM-GRAVITY AND EQUIVARIANT COHOMOLOGY

Authors
BROOKS R LIFSCHYTZ G
Citation
R. Brooks et G. Lifschytz, QUANTUM-GRAVITY AND EQUIVARIANT COHOMOLOGY, Nuclear physics. B, 438(1-2), 1995, pp. 211-232
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
438
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
211 - 232
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1995)438:1-2<211:QAEC>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
A procedure for obtaining correlation function densities and wavefunct ionals for quantum gravity from the Donaldson polynomial invariants of topological quantum field theories, is given. We illustrate how our p rocedure may be applied to three and four dimensional quantum gravity. Detailed expressions, derived from super-BF gauge theory, are given i n the three dimensional case. A procedure for normalizing these wavefu nctionals is proposed.