Localized exotic smoothness

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/11/7/015MaRDI QIDQ4315130zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carl H. Brans

Publication date 7 December 1994

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9404003

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb{R}^ 4\)exotic differentiable structuresspatial infinitytopologywormholes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55)

Abstract: Gompf's end-sum techniques are used to establish the existence of an infinity of non-diffeomorphic manifolds, all having the same trivial $$ topology, but for which the exotic differentiable structure is confined to a region which is spatially limited. Thus, the smoothness is standard outside of a region which is topologically (but not smoothly) $$, where $$ is the compact three ball. The exterior of this region is diffeomorphic to standard $$. In a space-time diagram, the confined exoticness sweeps out a world tube which, it is conjectured, might act as a source for certain non-standard solutions to the Einstein equations. It is shown that smooth Lorentz signature metrics can be globally continued from ones given on appropriately defined regions, including the exterior (standard) region. Similar constructs are provided for the topology, $$ of the Kruskal form of the Schwarzschild solution. This leads to conjectures on the existence of Einstein metrics which are externally identical to standard black hole ones, but none of which can be globally diffeomorphic to such standard objects. Certain aspects of the Cauchy problem are also discussed in terms of $$models which are ``half-standard, say for all $t<0,$ but for which $t$ cannot be globally smooth.

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