Nonabelianness of fundamental group of flat spacetime

IF 1 4区物理与天体物理 Q3 PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL

Reports on Mathematical Physics Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI:10.1016/S0034-4877(24)00036-3

Gunjan Agrawal, Deepanshi

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Abstract

In the present paper, it has been obtained that the fundamental group of n-dimensional Minkowski space with the time topology contains uncountably many copies of the additive group of integers and is not abelian. The result has been first proved for n = 2. Thereafter, it is extended to n > 2 by proving that loops nonhomotopic in M² continue to be nonhomotopic in Mⁿ using embedding of M² in Mⁿ as a retract through the projection map.

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平面时空基本群的非标注性

本文得出，具有时间拓扑的 n 维闵科夫斯基空间的基群包含不可计数的整数加法群副本，并且不是无边际的。这一结果首先是在 n = 2 时证明的。此后，通过使用 M2 在 Mn 中的嵌入作为通过投影图的回缩，证明 M2 中的非同调环在 Mn 中继续是非同调的，从而将其扩展到 n > 2。

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Reports on Mathematical Physics 物理-物理：数学物理

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1.80

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6 months

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