Mathematical Implications of Einstein-Weyl Causality (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9783540376804
Subjects: PHYSICS; Science; Geometry - General; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Cosmology; Geometry - Differential; Mathematical Physics; Science / Mathematical Physics; causality; differentiable manifolds; relativity; topological spaces; Causality (Physics)
Description: "The present work is the first systematic attempt at answering the following fundamental question: what mathematical structures does Einstein-Weyl causality impose on a point-set that has no other previous structure defined on it? The authors propose an axiomatization of Einstein-Weyl causality (inspired by physics), and investigate the topological and uniform structures that it implies. Their final result is that a causal space is densely embedded in one that is locally a differentiable manifold. The mathematical level required of the reader is that of the graduate student in mathematical physics."--BOOK JACKET.