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Group fields, gravity, and angular momentum

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The angular momentum properties of different homotopic sectors of a group field are examined. The results are applied to gravity, which is essentially a group field, and it is shown that the usual gravity kinks do not have angular momentum 1/2.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Okanagan College, P.O. Box 1088, VIT 6N2, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada

    J. G. Williams

  2. School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332, Atlanta, Georgia

    David Finkelstein

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Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY800-7921.

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Williams, J.G., Finkelstein, D. Group fields, gravity, and angular momentum. Int J Theor Phys 23, 61–66 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02080671

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