Test fields on compact space-times

DOI10.1063/1.528960zbMath0723.53062OpenAlexW2023532705WikidataQ125997698 ScholiaQ125997698MaRDI QIDQ3210512

Ulvi Yurtsever

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528960

zbMATH Keywords

wave equationpath integraleigenvalue problemcompact space-timesconformal invariantsclosed timelike curvesfield theorycausality conditionscompact Lorentz manifoldflat Lorentz toriLorentzian field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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• Compact space-times and the no-return theorem
• Topological quantum field theory
• On the fundamental groups of space-times in general relativity
• Line element fields and Lorentz structures on differentiable manifolds
• Duality and conformal structure
• Geometric quantization and the Bogoliubov transformation
• Compact spinor space-times

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