Topology change in (2+1)-dimensional gravity with non-abelian Higgs field

DOI10.1023/A:1018839108338MaRDI QIDQ1375545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. I. Nesterov

Publication date 1 June 1998

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0403079

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs potentialMorse theorytopology change

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We study topology change in (2+1)D gravity coupling with non-Abelian SO(2,1) Higgs field from the point of view of Morse theory. It is shown that the Higgs potential can be identified as a Morse function. The critical points of the latter (i.e. loci of change of the spacetime topology) coincide with zeros of the Higgs field. In these critical points two-dimensional metric becomes degenerate, but the curvature remains bounded.

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