Abelian gerbes, generalized geometries and foliations of small exotic R^4
Abstract
In the paper we prove the existence of the strict but relative relation between small exotic for a fixed radial family of DeMichelis-Freedman type, and cobordism classes of codimension one foliations of distinguished by the Godbillon-Vey invariant, (represented by a 3-form). This invariant can be integrated to get the Godbillon-Vey number. For a fixed radial family, we will show that the isotopy classes (invariance w.r.t. small diffeomorphisms or coordinate transformations) of all members in this family are distinguished by the Godbillon-Vey number of the foliation which is equal to the square of the radius of the radial family. The special case of integer Godbillon-Vey invariants is also discussed and is connected to flat bundles. Next we relate these distinguished small exotic smooth 's to twisted generalized geometries of Hitchin on and abelian gerbes on . In particular the change of the smoothness on corresponds to the twisting of the generalized geometry by the abelian gerbe. We formulate the localization principle for exotic 4-regions in spacetime and show that the existence of these domains causes the quantization of electric charge, the effect usually ascribed to the existence of magnetic monopoles.
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@article{arxiv.0904.1276,
title = {Abelian gerbes, generalized geometries and foliations of small exotic R^4},
author = {Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga and Jerzy Król},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1276},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
54 pages, 11 Figures, WS RMP style, complete revision with many background material, an error in the argumentation was fixed (many thanks to L. Taylor), the proof about the relation between foliations and exotic R^4 was completed, an construction of a foliation from a Casson handle was added