GRATUS, J and Tucker, Robin (1995) Topology change and the propagation of massless fields. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 36 (7). pp. 3353-3376. ISSN 0022-2488
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The massless wave equation on a class of two-dimensional manifolds consisting of an arbitrary number of topological cylinders connected to one or more topological spheres are analyzed herein. Such manifolds are endowed with a degenerate (non-globally hyperbolic) metric. Attention is drawn to the topological constraints on solutions describing monochromatic modes on both compact and noncompact manifolds. Energy and momentum currents are constructed and a new global sum rule discussed. The results offer a rigorous background for the formulation of a field theory of topologically induced particle production.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Mathematical Physics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SIGNATURE TYPE CHANGE ; GENERAL-RELATIVITY ; QUANTUM COSMOLOGY |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics |
| ID Code: | 52288 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 10 Jan 2012 11:48 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 20:03 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/52288 |
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