1993/09/02 by Steven Carlip, S Carlip · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Phase space #Quantization (signal processing) #Quantum #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum field theory in curved spacetime #Simple (philosophy) #Space (punctuation) #Spacetime #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/11/1/007
published as Class.Quant.Grav.11:31-40,1994 · 11 pages, LaTeX, UCD-93-25 and NSF-ITP-93-115
arxiv created 1993/09/02 · openalex publication_date 1994/01/01 · arxiv updated 2010/04/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In contrast to other approaches to (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity, the Wheeler--DeWitt equation appears to be too complicated to solve explicitly, even for simple spacetime topologies. Nevertheless, it is possible to obtain a good deal of information about solutions and their interpretation. In particular, strong evidence is presented that Wheeler--DeWitt quantization is not equivalent to reduced phase space quantization.