Charge and the topology of spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/11/308MaRDI QIDQ4935698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tammo Diemer, Mark J. Hadley

Publication date 31 January 2000

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

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

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)

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.

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