Topology change from Kaluza-Klein dimensions

Details Topology change from Kaluza-Klein dimensions Topology change from Kaluza-Klein dimensions

1997-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9709057v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, LaTeX, no figures, uses epsf

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In this letter we show that in a Kaluza-Klein framework we can have arbitrary topology change between the macroscopic (i.e. noncompactified) spacelike 3-hypersurfaces. This is achieved by using the compactified dimensions as a catalyser for topology change. In the case of odd-dimensional spacetimes (such as the 11-dimensional M-theory) this is always possible. In the even-dimensional case, a sufficient condition is the existence of a closed, odd-dimensional manifold as a factor (such as S^1, S^3) in the Kaluza-Klein sector. Since one of the most common manifolds used for compactification is the torus T^k = S^1 \times ... \times S^1, in this case we can again induce an arbitrary topology change on the 3-hypersurfaces.

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