Internal symmetry groups of quantum geons |
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Authors: | John L. Friedman Donald M. Witt |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA |
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Abstract: | In canonical quantum gravity asymptotically trivial diffeomorphisms not deformable to the identity can act nontrivially on the quantum state space. We show that for many 3-manifolds, the inequivalent diffeomorphisms comprise coverings in SU(2) of crystallographic groups. When the diffeomorphism R2π associated with 2π-rotation is nontrivial, state vectors can have half-integral angular momentum; we list all 3-manifolds with R2π trivial. |
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