https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2017-11346-7
Regular Article
Symplectic analysis of three-dimensional Abelian topological gravity
Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apartado Postal J-48 72570, Puebla Pue., Mexico
* e-mail: aescalan@ifuap.buap.mx
Received:
15
November
2016
Accepted:
29
December
2016
Published online:
7
February
2017
A detailed Faddeev-Jackiw quantization of an Abelian topological gravity is performed; we show that this formalism is equivalent and more economical than Dirac's method. In particular, we identify the complete set of constraints of the theory, from which the number of physical degrees of freedom is explicitly computed. We prove that the generalized Faddeev-Jackiw brackets and the Dirac ones coincide with each other. Moreover, we perform the Faddeev-Jackiw analysis of the theory at the chiral point, and the full set of constraints and the generalized Faddeev-Jackiw brackets are constructed. Finally we compare our results with those found in the literature and we discuss some remarks and prospects.
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