Torsion cycles as non-local magnetic sources in non-orientable spaces
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Non-orientable spaces can appear to carry net magnetic charge, even in the absence of magnetic sources. It is shown that this effect can be understood as a physical manifestation of the existence of torsion cycles of codimension one in the homology of space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405087,
title = {Torsion cycles as non-local magnetic sources in non-orientable spaces},
author = {Marcos Alvarez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405087},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
17 pages, 4 figures