Topology change and selection rules for high-dimensional Spin(1, n)_0-Lorentzian cobordisms

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7939MaRDI QIDQ5217882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gleb Smirnov, Rafael Torres

Publication date 26 February 2020

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07813

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex manifolds (32Q99) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

Abstract: We study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Lorentzian and weak Lorentzian cobordisms between closed smooth manifolds of arbitrary dimension such that the structure group of the frame bundle of the cobordism is $Spin(1,n{)}_0$. This extends a result of Gibbons-Hawking on $Sl(2,C)$-Lorentzian cobordisms between 3-manifolds and results of Reinhart and Sorkin on the existence of Lorentzian cobordisms. We compute the $Spin(1,n{)}_0$-Lorentzian cobordism group for several dimensions. Restrictions on the gravitational kink numbers of $Spin(1,n{)}_0$-weak Lorentzian cobordisms are obtained.

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