Title

Three Dimensional Lattice Gravity as Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Simon Catterall, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

10-20-2010

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We argue that a certain twisted supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in three dimensions with gauge group SU(2) possesses a set of topological observables whose expectation values can be computed in a related Chern Simons theory. This Chern Simons theory has been proposed as a definition of three dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity. Since the YM theory admits a discretization which preserves the values of topological observables we conjecture that it can be used as a non-perturbative definition of the quantum gravity theory.

Additional Information

8 pages. Contribution to Lattice 2010 More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4240

Recommended Citation

Catterall, Simon, "Three Dimensional Lattice Gravity as Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory" (2010). Physics - All Scholarship. 431.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/431

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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