SOME PROBLEMS OF TOPOLOGY CHANGE DESCRIPTION IN THE THEORY OF SPACETIME

DOI10.1142/S0218271898000024MaRDI QIDQ4936974zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors M. Yu. Konstantinov

Publication date 2 February 2000

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9508050

zbMATH Keywords

junction conditionsmultidimensional theoriestopology change description in gravitation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: The problem of topology change description in gravitation theory is analized in detailes. It is pointed out that in standard four-dimensional theories the topology of space may be considered as a particular case of boundary conditions (or constraints). Therefore, the possible changes of space topology in (3+1)-dimensions do not admit dynamical description nor in classical nor in quantum theories and the statements about dynamical supressing of topology change have no sence. In the framework of multidimensional theories the space (and space-time) may be considered as the embedded manifolds. It give the real posibilities for the dynamical description of the topology of space or space-time.

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