Selection rules for topology change

DOI10.1007/BF02100864MaRDI QIDQ1200514zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. W. Hawking, Gary W. Gibbons

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02100864

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimewormholehandleclosed oriented 3-manifold\({}\bmod 2\) Kervaire semi-characteristic\(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\)-spin structurespace like boundary of a Lorentzian 4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) General relativity (83C99) Other types of cobordism (57R90)

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• Lorentzian characteristic classes
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• Topology in General Relativity

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