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Three-Dimensional Gravity and String Ghosts

S. Carlip, I. I. Kogan

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9110005

Abstract

It is known that much of the structure of string theory can be derived from three-dimensional topological field theory and gravity. We show here that, at least for simple topologies, the string diffeomorphism ghosts can also be explained in terms of three-dimensional physics.

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