Collisions in piecewise flat gravity in 3+1 dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/14/145003MaRDI QIDQ3581352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maarten van de Meent

Publication date 16 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3708

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic censorshipEinstein's equationsspace-time singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We consider the (3+1)-dimensional locally finite gravity model proposed by 't Hooft. In particular we revisit the problem of resolving collisions of string defects. We provide a new geometric description of the configurations of strings using piecewise flat manifolds, and use it to resolve a more general class of collisions. We argue that beyond certain bounds for the deficiency/surplus angles no resolutions may be found that satisfy the imposed causality conditions.

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