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The trousers problem revisited
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The trousers problem revisited |
| Names |
Manogue, Corinne A.
(creator) Copeland, Ed (creator) Dray, Tevian (creator) |
| Date Issued | 1988-04 (iso8601) |
| Note | This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the Indian Academy of Sciences and can be found at: http://link.springer.com/journal/12043. |
| Abstract | Anderson and DeWitt considered the quantization of a massless scalar field in a spacetime whose spacelike hypersurfaces change topology and concluded that the topology change gives rise to infinite particle and energy production. We show here that their calculations are insufficient and that their propagation rule is unphysical. However, our results using a more general propagation rule support their conclusion. |
| Genre | Article |
| Topic | Trousers topology |
| Identifier | Manogue, C. A., Copeland, E., & Dray, T. (1988). The trousers problem revisited. Pramana, 30(4), 279-292. doi:10.1007/BF02846737 |
