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Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect in three dimensions
Phys. Rev. D 32, 504 – Published 15 July, 1985
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.504
Abstract
We examine the effects of parallel transport of spinors and vectors around the known pointlike solutions of three-dimensional gravity. We point out that the massive, zero-spin solution corresponds, when suitably embedded in four dimensions, to a cosmic string.
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