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Note on Signature Change and Colombeau Theory

2000/12/13 by Tevian Dray, George Ellis, Charles Hellaby
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Differential geometry #General relativity #Geometry #History and Theory of Mathematics #Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis #Mathematics #Physics #Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education #Pure mathematics #Signature (topology) #Theoretical physics #Theory of relativity #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1023/a:1010228315205

published as Gen.Rel.Grav. 33 (2001) 1041-1046 · REVTex, 3 pages; to appear in GRG

arxiv created 2000/12/13 · openalex publication_date 2001/06/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Recent work alludes to various `controversies' associated with signature change in general relativity. As we have argued previously, these are in fact disagreements about the (often unstated) assumptions underlying various possible approaches. The choice between approaches remains open.

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