Topology change and the propagation of massless fields

DOI10.1063/1.531035zbMATH Open0844.58075arXivgr-qc/9502016OpenAlexW3106102424MaRDI QIDQ4873499FDOQ4873499

Authors: Jonathan Gratus, R. W. Tucker 

Publication date: 13 August 1996

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

two-dimensional manifoldstopological spheresmassless wave equationtopological cylinders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

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