Compactification, topology change and surgery theory
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Compactification, topology change and surgery theory
We study the process of compactification as a topology change. It is shown how the mediating spacetime topology, or cobordism, may be simplified through surgery. Within the causal Lorentzian approach to quantum gravity, it is shown that any topology change in dimensions ≥ 5 may be achieved via a causally continuous cobordism. This extends the known result for 4 dimensions. Therefore, there is n...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Classical and Quantum Gravity
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0264-9381,1361-6382
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/20/14/312