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How to include fermions into General relativity by exotic smoothness

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

This paper is two-fold. At first we will discuss the generation of source terms in the Einstein-Hilbert action by using (topologically complicated) compact 3-manifolds. There is a large class of compact 3-manifolds with boundary: a torus given as the complement of a (thickened) knot admitting a hyperbolic geometry, denoted as hyperbolic knot complements in the following. We will discuss the fermionic properties of this class of 3-manifolds, i.e. we are able to identify a fermion with a hyperbolic knot complement. Secondly we will construct a large class of space-times, the exotic R4\mathbb{R}^{4}, containing this class of 3-manifolds naturally. We begin with a topological trivial space, the R4\mathbb{R}^{4}, and change only the differential structure to obtain many nontrivial 3-manifolds. It is known for a long time that exotic R4\mathbb{R}^{4}'s generate extra sources of gravity (Brans conjecture) but here we will analyze the structure of these source terms more carefully. Finally we will state that adding a hyperbolic knot complement will result in the appearance of a fermion as source term in the Einstein-Hilbert action.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1502.02087,
  title  = {How to include fermions into General relativity by exotic smoothness},
  author = {T. Asselmeyer-Maluga and C. H. Brans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02087},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

27 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Gen. Rel. Grav. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1401.4816

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