Fake R^4s, Einstein spaces and Seiberg-Witten monopole equations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/16/319zbMATH Open0989.83031arXivhep-th/0103119OpenAlexW2062532753MaRDI QIDQ2762012FDOQ2762012

Publication date: 5 August 2002

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the possible relevance of some recent mathematical results and techniques on four-manifolds to physics. We first suggest that the existence of uncountably many R^4's with non-equivalent smooth structures, a mathematical phenomenon unique to four dimensions, may be responsible for the observed four-dimensionality of spacetime. We then point out the remarkable fact that self-dual gauge fields and Weyl spinors can live on a manifold of Euclidean signature without affecting the metric. As a specific example, we consider solutions of the Seiberg-Witten Monopole Equations in which the U(1) fields are covariantly constant, the monopole Weyl spinor has only a single constant component, and the 4-manifold M_4 is a product of two Riemann surfaces Sigma_{p_1} and Sigma_{p_2}. There are p_{1}-1(p_{2}-1) magnetic(electric) vortices on Sigma_{p_1}(Sigma_{p_2}), with p_1 + p_2 geq 2 (p_1=p_2= 1 being excluded). When the two genuses are equal, the electromagnetic fields are self-dual and one obtains the Einstein space Sigma_p x Sigma_p, the monopole condensate serving as the cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103119

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zbMATH Keywords

Seiberg-Witten monopole equations non-equivalent smooth structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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