Topological gravity in Minkowski space

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dc.creatorMorava, Jack
dc.date2004-07-07
dc.date2006-05-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:38:38Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:38:38Z
dc.descriptionThe two-category with three-manifolds as objects, h-cobordisms as morphisms, and diffeomorphisms of these as two-morphisms, is extremely rich; from the point of view of classical physics it defines a nontrivial topological model for general relativity. A rather striking amount of work on pseudoisotopy theory [Hatcher, Waldhausen, Cohen-Carlsson-Goodwillie-Hsiang-Madsen...] can be formulated as a (generalized) TQFT in this framework. The resulting theory is far from trivial even in the case of Minkowski space, when the relevant three-manifold is the standard sphere.
dc.descriptionTalk at the 2^o Congreso Latino-Americano de Mátematicos, Cancun, Quintana Roo, México; 24 July 2004; updated, with some minimal calculations
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407104
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407104
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/100807
dc.subjectAlgebraic Topology
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject19Dxx, 57Rxx, 83Cxx
dc.titleTopological gravity in Minkowski space
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