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Exotic smoothness and physics : differential topology and spacetime models /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hackensack, NJ ; London :
World Scientific,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 inco. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789812706669 9812706666 1281120758 9781281120755 9786611120757 6611120750 |