Abstract

We summarize the results obtained by applying Dirac's gauge fixing formalism to the combinatorial description of the Chern–Simons formulation of (2+1)-gravity and their implications for the symmetries of the quantum theory. While the combinatorial description of the phase space exhibits standard Poisson–Lie symmetries, every gauge fixing condition based on two point particles yields a Poisson structure determined by a dynamical classical r-matrix. By considering transformations between different gauge fixing conditions, it is possible to classify all gauge fixed Poisson structures in terms of two standard solutions of the dynamical classical Yang–Baxter equation. We discuss the conclusions that can be drawn from this about the symmetries of (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity.

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