Global structure of Witten's 2+1 gravity on ${\bf R}\times T^2$

2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/35487We investigate the space ${\cal M}$ of classical solutions to Witten's formulation of 2+1 gravity on the manifold ${\bf R} \times T^2$. ${\cal M}$ is connected, but neither Hausdorff nor a manifold. However, removing from ${\cal M}$ a set of measure zero yields a connected manifold which is naturally viewed as the cotangent bundle over a non-Hausdorff base space. Avenues towards quantizing the theory are discussed in view of the relation between spacetime metrics and the various parts of~${\cal M}$. (Contribution to the proceedings of the Lanczos Centenary Conference, Raleigh, NC, December 12--17, 1993.)3 pages, LaTeX. CGPG-94/3-2, WISC-MILW-94-TH-12General Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - TheoryGlobal structure of Witten's 2+1 gravity on ${\bf R}\times T^2$text