Some remarks on gravitational analogues of magnetic charge

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/6/001zbMATH Open0839.53064arXivgr-qc/9411014OpenAlexW3122469304MaRDI QIDQ4838565FDOQ4838565

Authors: C. G. Torre 

Publication date: 25 June 1996

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

Abstract: Existing mathematical results are applied to the problem of classifying closed $p$-forms which are locally constructed from Lorentzian metrics on an $n$-dimensional orientable manifold $M$ ($0<p<n$). We show that the only closed, non-exact forms are generated by representatives of cohomology classes of $M$ and $(n-1)$-forms representing $n$-dimensional (with $n$ even) generalizations of the conservation of ``kink number, which was exhibited by Finkelstein and Misner for $n=4$. The cohomology class that defines the kink number depends only on the diffeomorphism equivalence class of the metric, but a result of Gilkey implies that there is no representative of this cohomology class which is built from the metric, curvature and covariant derivatives of curvature to any finite order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9411014

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian metricstopological conservation lawskink number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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