A Commemorative Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Carl H. Brans: At the Frontier of Spacetime
A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 98
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Interests: quantum field theory; quantum computing; mathematical physics; game theory
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Interests: general relativity; category theory; curvature; synthetic differential geometry; infinitesimal formal manifold; space-time singularity
Interests: quantum gravity; differential topology of spacetime; cosmology; dark energy and matter; foundation of quantum field theory; quantum geometry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The presence of exotic differential structures on differential manifolds was first discovered in the middle of the 20th century for five-dimensional and higher manifolds. In the 1980s, there was a real breakthrough in four-dimensional manifolds using gauge-theory methods inspired by theoretical physics. With these methods, it was possible to infinitely construct many exotic smoothness structures on many four-dimensional manifolds. Among the many surprising innovations was the confirmation that the seemingly trivial space R4 had an infinite number of manifolds. Carl Brans was the first to point to the importance of this fact in theoretical physics, in particular with regard to general relativity. The Brans conjecture became a driving force in this topic for many years.
The primary goal of this Special Issue is to commemorate the outstanding mathematical physicist Carl Brans; discuss the importance of the existence of exotic differential structures for modelling the physical world; and address the general interplay between mathematics and physics.
We encourage scientists active in this field, as well as historians and philosophers of science, to present their findings and opinions regarding the influence of the development of physics on mathematics, as well as other issues related to the subject of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Jan Sładkowski
Dr. Jerzy Król
Dr. Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- exotic smoothness
- gravity
- quantum theory
- fundamental interactions
- cosmology
