Topics in 2 + 1 gravity and conformal field theory

We study the Hamiltonian dynamics for a system of two colliding point particles coupled to (2+1)-dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant by anchoring the dynamics of the system to its spatial infinity. We reduce the Chern-Simons formulation of the gravitational action, finding the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Richard Gunn
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10675/