%0 Journal Article %T A Comment on the Degrees of Freedom in the Ashtekar Formulation for 2+1 Gravity %A J. Fernando Barbero G %A Madhavan Varadarajan %J Physics %D 1999 %I arXiv %R 10.1088/0264-9381/16/11/401 %X We show that the recent claim that the 2+1 dimensional Ashtekar formulation for General Relativity has a finite number of physical degrees of freedom is not correct. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909036v1