Teichmuller Motion of (2+1)-dimensional Gravity With the Cosmological Constant

Aug, 1989
25 pages
Published in:
  • Prog.Theor.Phys. 83 (1990) 733-748
Report number:
  • RRK-89-30

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Abstract: (Oxford Journals)
The (2+1)-dimensional Einstein gravity with a cosmological constant is studied in the ADM canonical formalism. Adopting York’s time slice, we completely solve the initial-value problem and the time evolution equations with an initla spacelike 2-surface being a closed Riemann surface of genus zero and one. The result in a torus case is that the Teichmüller parameters for the torus follow a geodesic in the Teichmüller space but its motion asymptotically stops due to the presence of the cosmological constant.
  • gravitation
  • dimension: 3
  • cosmological constant
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • field theory: constraint
  • field theory: torus
  • field theory: sphere
  • time
  • Riemann surface