The closed Friedman world model with the initial and final singularities as a non-commutative space

Michael Heller; Wiesław Sasin

Banach Center Publications (1997)

  • Volume: 41, Issue: 1, page 153-161
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

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The most elegant definition of singularities in general relativity as b-boundary points, when applied to the closed Friedman world model, leads to the disastrous situation: both the initial and final singularities form the single point of the b-boundary which is not Hausdorff separated from the rest of space-time. We apply Alain Connes' method of non-commutative geometry, defined in terms of a C*-algebra, to this case. It turns out that both the initial and final singularities can be analysed as representations of the C*-algebra in a Hilbert space. The method does not distinguish points in space-time, but identifies space slices of the closed Friedman model as states of the corresponding C*-algebra.

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Heller, Michael, and Sasin, Wiesław. "The closed Friedman world model with the initial and final singularities as a non-commutative space." Banach Center Publications 41.1 (1997): 153-161. <http://eudml.org/doc/252197>.

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