Some remarks on gravitational analogues of magnetic charge

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/6/001MaRDI QIDQ4838565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. G. Torre

Publication date 25 June 1996

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

kink numberLorentzian metricstopological conservation laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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