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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJul 6th 2010

recorded two references to physics application at exotic smooth structure

(no time for anything else)

• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeJul 7th 2010

Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga added a reference to an article of his

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorGuest
• CommentTimeSep 6th 2010
many more references added, did I miss something?
• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorTobyBartels
• CommentTimeSep 7th 2010
• (edited Sep 7th 2010)

Yes, lots of references added by Torsten, and thanks for them!

Tip: Instead of creating Torsten Asselmeyer, add [[!redirects Torsten Asselmeyer]] to the bottom of Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga. (I have fixed this now.)

• CommentRowNumber5.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 7th 2010

There is this long list of references by Jerzy Krol (a whole subsection). Did anyone look at this?

I think the majority of the references by him have nothing to do with exotic smooth structure – and don’t claim to have. It’s just the two joint papers with Torster Asselmeyer-Maluga that do.

So I think that section with references of Krol should not be in this entry.

In this long series of articles currently listed at exotic smooth structure Krol speculates aout possible applications of topos theory and other abstract category theory to physics. For instance he asks

• whether at small scales spacetime might have to be modeled by a general topos instead of a topological space,

• whether model theory might explain the AdS/CFT correspondence,

• whether non-standard integers in the Basel topos of synthetic differential geometry might explain how to handle divergencies in quantum field theory.

Things like that. I think these are in principle interesting questions (though I don’t understand what he means in the AdS/CFT case) but that they remain very speculative.

I would suggest we move this list of publications by Krol to a different entry, say to n-categorical physics and add comments indicating that this is speculative.

• CommentRowNumber6.
• CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
• CommentTimeSep 7th 2010

Something mathematical at exotic smooth structure, namely an idea section and reference to Milnor’s 7-sphere paper.

• CommentRowNumber7.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 7th 2010

Thanks. I edited it a bit, check if you like it.

Maybe you find a second to add the references that you allude to to the References-section. That would serve to counterbalance the huge list of potential physical applications with a little bit of genuine substance :-)

• CommentRowNumber8.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 7th 2010
• (edited Sep 7th 2010)

Oh, and I created a stub for topological manifold directing to manifold (where there is detailed discussion).

• CommentRowNumber9.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 7th 2010

I suggest

I have now created a “category: people”-entry Jerzy Krol and for the moment moved his list of publications to there.

• CommentRowNumber10.
• CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
• CommentTimeSep 8th 2010

A little bit more, but I’ll just leave links to Wikipedia pages for references (of which there are a number) at the moment

• CommentRowNumber11.
• CommentAuthorGuest
• CommentTimeSep 10th 2010
I know, the page should give only the idea but I add some technical things in a general style.

The reference list for the applications to physics is nearly complete. I have no idea what else. I remember on a proceeding paper by Penrose quite after the appearance of Donaldson reults (in 1983). There, he speculates about exotic smoothness and its relation to physics vis the anti-self-dual solutions. I will look for that paper.

There are two constructions for exotic compact 4-manifolds: the knot surgery and the Akbulut cork which should be discussed....
Or is the article to long?

Torsten
• CommentRowNumber12.
• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeSep 10th 2010

I know, the page should give only the idea

No, this is not a demand we have on the page! It’s just that so far nobody had the energy to do more.

I add some technical things in a general style.

Good, thanks. If you feel like expanding this entry to a more comprehensive technical discussion, that would be great. Maybe have a look at our template page for inspiration.

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• CommentAuthorUrs
• CommentTimeMar 24th 2021

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