A brief introduction to non-regular spacetime geometry
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2024-04-30 v1 Mathematical Physics
Differential Geometry
Metric Geometry
math.MP
Abstract
We give a brief non-technical introduction to non-regular spacetime geometry. In particular, we discuss how curvature, and hence gravity, can be defined without a smooth (differential geometric) calculus.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.18651,
title = {A brief introduction to non-regular spacetime geometry},
author = {Clemens Sämann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18651},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
19 pages, 3 Figures; invited article for International Mathematical News, the journal of the Austrian Mathematical Society