Some results on the Zeeman topology
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In a 1967 paper, Zeeman proposed a new topology for Minkowski spacetime, physically motivated but much more complicated than the standard one. Here a detailed study is given of some properties of the Zeeman topology which had not been considered at the time. The general setting refers to Minkowski spacetime of any dimension k+1. In the special case k=1, a full characterization is obtained for the compact subsets of spacetime; moreover, the first homotopy group is shown to be nontrivial.
Part of my Laurea thesis. REVTeX4. Minor changes from previous version
Part of my Laurea thesis. REVTeX4. Minor changes from previous version