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David O'Connell

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arXiv2024

Topology Change from Pointlike Sources

In this paper we study topology-changing spacetimes occurring from pointlike sources. Following an old idea of Penrose, we will opt for a non-Hausdorff model of topology change in which an initial pointlike source is ``doubled" and allowed to propagate along null rays into an eventual cobordism. By appealing to recent developments in non-Hausdorff differential geometry, we will describe and evaluate gravitational actions on these topology-changing spacetimes. Motivated by analogous results for the Trousers space, we describe a sign convention for Lorentzian angles that will ensure the dampening of our non-Hausdorff topology-changing spacetimes within a two-dimensional path integral for gravity.

gr-qc↗

arXiv2023

A Non-Hausdorff de Rham Cohomology

In this paper we introduce and study the basic properties of de Rham cohomology for a certain class of non-Hausdorff manifolds. After a careful discussion of non-Hausdorff differential forms, we provide a description of de Rham cohomology via Mayer-Vietoris sequences. We then use these sequences to prove both de Rham's Theorem and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for our non-Hausdorff manifolds. Regarding the latter, we will see that the desired equality requires additional counterterms coming from the geodesic curvature of certain Hausdorff-violating submanifolds.

math.DG↗

arXiv2023

Vector Bundles over non-Hausdorff Manifolds

In this paper we generalise the theory of real vector bundles to a certain class of non-Hausdorff manifolds. In particular, it is shown that every vector bundle fibred over these non-Hausdorff manifolds can be constructed as a colimit of standard vector bundles. We then use this description to introduce various formulas that express non-Hausdorff structures in terms of data defined on certain Hausdorff submanifolds. Finally, we use Čech cohomology to classify the real non-Hausdorff line bundles.

math.DG↗

arXiv2022

Non-Hausdorff Manifolds via Adjunction Spaces

In this paper we will introduce and develop a theory of adjunction spaces which allows the construction of non-Hausdorff topological manifolds from standard Hausdorff ones. This is done by gluing Hausdorff manifolds along homeomorphic open submanifolds whilst leaving the boundaries of these regions unidentified. In the case that these gluing regions have homeomorphic boundaries, it is shown that Hausdorff violation occurs precisely at these boundaries. We then use this adjunction formalism to provide a partial characterisation of the maximal Hausdorff submanifolds that a given non-Hausdorff manifold may admit.

math.GN↗