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The importance of conical singularities in the configuration space of gravitation theory is pointed out. Consideration is given to a possible inequivalence of intrinsic and extrinsic quantization and to the behavour of the wave functional in the presence of such singularities.
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De Barros Cobra Damgaard, B., Römer, H. Quantum gravity and Schrödinger equations on orbifolds. Lett Math Phys 13, 189–193 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00423445
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00423445