Space-time singularities vs. topologies in the Zeeman-Göbel class

DOI10.1134/S0202289319020117MaRDI QIDQ2320516zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kyriakos Papadopoulos, B. K. Papadopoulos

Publication date 23 August 2019

Published in Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03270

zbMATH Keywords

manifold topologypath topologyquantum nonlocal theoryspacetime singularitiestopologiesZeeman-Göbel class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Several topologies on one set (change of topology, comparison of topologies, lattices of topologies) (54A10) Topological manifolds (57N99) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: In this article we first observe that the Path topology of Hawking, King and MacCarthy is an analogue, in curved spacetimes, of a topology that was suggested by Zeeman as an alternative topology to his so-called Fine topology in Minkowski spacetime. We then review a result of a recent paper on spaces of paths and the Path topology, and see that there are at least five more topologies in the class $mathfrakZ-mathfrakG$ of Zeeman-G"obel topologies which admit a countable basis, incorporate the causal and conformal structures, but the Limit Curve Theorem fails to hold. The "problem" that L.C.T. does not hold can be resolved by "adding back" the light-cones in the basic-open sets of these topologies, and create new basic open sets for new topologies. But, the main question is: do we really need the L.C.T. to hold, and why? Why is the manifold topology, under which the group of homeomorphisms of a spacetime is vast and of no physical significance (Zeeman), more preferable from an appropriate topology in the class $mathfrakZ-mathfrakG$ under which a homeomorphism is an isometry (G"obel)? Since topological conditions that come as a result of a causality requirement are key in the existence of singularities in general relativity, the global topological conditions that one will supply the spacetime manifold might play an important role in describing the transition from the quantum non-local theory to a classical local theory.

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