Kinks and cobordism

DOI10.1007/BF00670457zbMath0454.57024MaRDI QIDQ1149677

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1979

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

mesons; fermions; change of topology of space time; cobordant manifolds; conservation of degree; conservation of kinks; quantum fluctuations in the curvature of space time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81V25: Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory

83C99: General relativity

57R99: Differential topology

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

57R75: (mathrm{O})- and (mathrm{SO})-cobordism