Published August 1986
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Journal article
Non-time-orientable Lorentzian cobordism allows for pair creation
Description
It is shown that if time-orientability is sacrificed, then, in any spacetime of odd dimension, two cobordant manifolds are also related by a Lorentzian cobordism. Thus, pair creation of Kaluza-Klein monopoles would be allowed in such a framework. The even-dimensional case is also examined
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Int. J. Theor. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 25
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Series
- Int. J. Theor. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 876-882
- ISSN
- 0020-7748
- CODEN
- IJTPB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18034180
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SPACE-TIME; TOPOLOGY; VECTOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES