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Strings and the Gauge Theory of Spacetime Defects

1998/09/30 by Yishi Duan, Ying Jiang
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

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published as Int.J.Theor.Phys. 38 (1999) 563-573 · 12 pages, no figures, LaTeX. Int. J. Theor. Phys., to appear in 1999, No.2

arxiv created 1998/10/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

we present a new topological invariant to describe the space-time defect which is closely related to torsion tensor in Riemann-Cartan manifold. By virtue of the topological current theory and ϕ-mapping method, we show that there must exist many strings objects generated from the zero points of ϕ-mapping, and these strings are topological quantized and the topological quantum numbers is the Winding numbers described by the Hopf indices and the Brouwer degrees of the ϕ-mapping.

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