Torsion cycles as non-local magnetic sources in non-orientable spaces
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Torsion cycles as non-local magnetic sources in non-orientable spaces
zbMATH Open document ID: 1167.78002
author: Marcos Alvarez
published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 2009-03-26T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405087
review text: Non-orientable spaces are known to be able to support net magnetic fluxes through closed surfaces, even in the absence of magnetic sources. To an observer for whom the non-orientability of space appears to be confined to a certain finite region of space, such a magnetic flux appears as a magnetic charge quasi-localised in that region. In this paper it is shown that this effect is a physical manifestation of the existence of torsion cycles of codimension one in the homology of space.
reviewed by: Valter Moretti
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 78A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14F45
zbMATH DE Number: 5533168
zbMATH Keywords: magnetic fluxes
zbMATH Keywords: orientability of space
zbMATH Keywords: torsion cycles
zbMATH Keywords: homology
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1996575808
arXiv ID: hep-th/0405087
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DOI: 10.1007/S00220-007-0378-0
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