Topology change and the propagation of massless fields

DOI10.1063/1.531035MaRDI QIDQ4873499zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Gratus, R. W. Tucker

Publication date 13 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502016

zbMATH Keywords

two-dimensional manifoldstopological spheresmassless wave equationtopological cylinders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

Abstract: We analyse the massless wave equation on a class of two dimensional manifolds consisting of an arbitrary number of topological cylinders connected to one or more topological spheres. Such manifolds are endowed with a degenerate (non-globally hyperbolic) metric. Attention is drawn to the topological constraints on solutions describing monochromatic modes on both compact and non-compact manifolds. Energy and momentum currents are constructed and a new global sum rule discussed. The results offer a rigorous background for the formulation of a field theory of topologically induced particle production.

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