Beyond the Space-Time Boundary

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-30896-4_8zbMATH Open1442.83008arXiv1711.09027OpenAlexW2990307827MaRDI QIDQ3296113FDOQ3296113

Authors: Jerzy Król, Michal P. Heller 

Publication date: 6 July 2020

Published in: Springer Proceedings in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In General Relativity a space-time $M$ is regarded singular if there is an obstacle that prevents an incomplete curve in $M$ to be continued. Usually, such a space-time is completed to form $$ where $partialM$ is a singular boundary of $M$. The standard geometric tools on $M$ do not allow "to cross the boundary". However, the so-called Synthetic Differential Geometry (SDG), a categorical version of standard differential geometry based on intuitionistic logic, has at its disposal tools permitting doing so. Owing to the existence of infinitesimals one is able to penetrate "germs of manifolds" that are not visible from the standard perspective. We present a simple model showing what happens "beyond the boundary" and when the singularity is finally attained. The model is purely mathematical and is mathematically rigorous but it does not pretend to refer to the physical universe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09027

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zbMATH Keywords

intuitionistic logicsingular boundaryspace-time boundaryincomplete curvesynthetic differential geometry (SDG)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Other applications of logic (03B80)

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