Comparison of spacetime defects which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic

DOI10.1063/1.4900883zbMATH Open1305.83016arXiv1404.2901OpenAlexW1980158039MaRDI QIDQ2934191FDOQ2934191

Authors: F. R. Klinkhamer, F. Sorba 

Publication date: 11 December 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Certain remnants of a quantum spacetime foam can be modeled by a distribution of defects embedded in a flat classical spacetime. The presence of such spacetime defects affects the propagation of elementary particles. In this article, we show explicitly that both topology and differential structure of the defects are important for the particle motion. Specifically, we consider three types of spacetime defects which are described by the same topological manifold $$ but which are not diffeomorphic to each other. We investigate the propagation of a massless scalar field over the three different manifolds and find different solutions of the mbox{Klein--Gordon} equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2901

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zbMATH Keywords

topologymassless scalar fieldKlein-Gordon equationdifferential structurespacetime defectsquantum spacetime foam

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Physics (00A79) Wave equation (35L05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)

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