Half-integral spin from quantum gravity

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Jul 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982gregr..14..615f&link_type=abstract

General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 14, Issue 7, pp.615-620

Physics

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For a certain class of three-manifolds, the angular momentum of an asymptotically flat quantum gravitational field can have half-integral values. In the absence of a full theory of quantum gravity, this result relies on a set of apparently natural assumptions governing the kinematics of such a theory. A key feature is that state vectors are in general invariant only under asymptotically trivial diffeomorphisms that can be continuously deformed to the identity. Angular momentum is associated with diffeomorphisms that look asymptotically like rotations; and the question of whether half-integral values occur depends on whether the diffeomorphism associated with a 2π rotation is itself deformable to the identity.

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