Topological surgery in cosmic phenomena

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2019.V23.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ2665893zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stathis Antoniou, Sofia Lambropoulou, Louis Kauffman

Publication date 19 November 2021

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00837

zbMATH Keywords

wormhole formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We connect topological changes that can occur in $3$-space via surgery, with black hole formation, the formation of wormholes and new generalizations of these phenomena, including relationships between quantum entanglement and wormhole formation. By considering the initial manifold as the $3$-dimensional spatial section of spacetime, we describe the changes of topology occurring in these processes by determining the resulting $3$-manifold and its fundamental group. As these global changes are induced by local processes, we use the local form of Morse functions to provide an algebraic formulation of their temporal evolution and propose a potential energy function which, in some cases, could give rise to the local forces related to surgery. We further show how this topological perspective gives new insight for natural phenomena exhibiting surgery, in all dimensions, while emphasizing the $3$-dimensional case, which describes cosmic phenomena. This work makes new bridges between topology and natural sciences and creates a platform for exploring geometrical physics.

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