Charge and the topology of spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/11/308zbMATH Open0938.83020arXivgr-qc/9905069OpenAlexW3102798624MaRDI QIDQ4935698FDOQ4935698

Authors: Tammo Diemer, Mark J. Hadley 

Publication date: 31 January 2000

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

Abstract: A new class of electrically charged wormholes is described in which the outer two sphere is not spanned by a compact coorientable hypersurface. These wormholes can therefore display net electric charge from the source free Maxwell's equation. This extends the work of Sorkin on non-space orientable manifolds, to spacetimes which do not admit a time orientation. The work is motivated by the suggestion that quantum theory can be explained by modelling elementary particles as regions of spacetime with non-trivial causal structure. The simplest example of an electrically charged spacetime carries a spherical symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905069

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zbMATH Keywords

source-free Maxwell equationselectrically charged wormholes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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