Change of signature and topology in a five-dimensional cosmological model

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/10/10/019zbMath0832.57018OpenAlexW2021085424MaRDI QIDQ4280280

Richard Kerner, Jérôme Martin

Publication date: 23 March 1994

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/10/10/019

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss-Bonnet termEinstein-Hilbert LagrangianEuclidean regionfour-dimensional Robertson-Walker metricprimordial cosmologysignature of metric in a five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential topology (57R99) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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