Contact
How to shop
Delivery
Shopping guide
Exotic Smoothness and Physics
Differential Topology and Spacetime Models
English
392 b
Delivery to Austria
Up to 30 days for returns
Customers also purchased
/
Paperback
28.19
€
/
Paperback
52.19
€
/
Paperback
62.29
€
/
Paperback
10.49
€
The recent revolution in differential topology related to the discovery of non-standard ("exotic") smoothness structures on topologically trivial manifolds such as R4 suggests many exciting opportunities for applications of potentially deep importance for the spacetime models of theoretical physics, especially general relativity. This rich panoply of new differentiable structures lies in the previously unexplored region between topology and geometry. Just as physical geometry was thought to be trivial before Einstein, physicists have continued to work under the tacit - but now shown to be incorrect - assumption that differentiability is uniquely determined by topology for simple four-manifolds. Since diffeomorphisms are the mathematical models for physical coordinate transformations, Einstein's relativity principle requires that these models be physically inequivalent. This book provides an introductory survey of some of the relevant mathematics and presents preliminary results and suggestions for further applications to spacetime models.
About the book
English
Categories
Give this book today
It's easy
1 Add to cart and choose Deliver as present at the checkout 2 We'll send you a voucher 3 The book will arrive at the recipient's addressYou might also be interested in
/
Paperback
10.69
€
/
Paperback
20.09
€
/
Paperback
88.39
€
/
Hardback
39.69
€
Hi! I'm Libroamiko, your book advisor.
How can I help you?