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dc.contributor.author | Borde, A | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-05-22T06:14:06Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2008-05-22T06:14:06Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | BASI, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 571 - 577 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2248/2336 | - |
dc.description.abstract | It is often stated that topology change is impossible in classical general relativity. In particular, it appears to be widely believed that the pleasure of topology change comes at a fixed price: topology – changing space times must be singular. This perception is wrong. I discuss here both the kinematics and the dynamics of topology change, in order to clarify what precisely the obstacles are, and (with luck) to dispel a few of the more widespread misconceptions about this process. Some of the work presented here extends the work of Geroch and Tipler to a wider class of spacetimes, and some of it offers novelties – such as an explicit example of non-singular 2-dimensional topology change that have been claimed in the literature to be impossible | en |
dc.format.extent | 559783 bytes | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Astronomical Society of India | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997BASI...25..571B | en |
dc.subject | Topology | en |
dc.subject | Kinematics | en |
dc.subject | Dynamics | en |
dc.title | How impossible is topology change? | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
Appears in Collections: | BASI Publications |
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