The Group of Large Diffeomorphisms in General Relativity

Giulini, Domenico

Banach Center Publications, Tome 38 (1997), p. 303-315 / Harvested from The Polish Digital Mathematics Library

Résumé

We investigate the mapping class groups of diffeomorphisms fixing a frame at a point for general classes of 3-manifolds. These groups form the equivalent to the groups of large gauge transformations in Yang-Mills theories. They are also isomorphic to the fundamental groups of the spaces of 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms, which are the analogues in General Relativity to gauge-orbit spaces in gauge theories.

Détail

Publié le : 1997-01-01

Zbl 0881.57031

EUDML-ID : urn:eudml:doc:208669

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