Torsion Cycles as Non-Local Magnetic Sources in Non-Orientable Spaces |
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Authors: | Marcos Alvarez |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Mathematical Science, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK |
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Abstract: | Non-orientable spaces are known to be able to support net magnetic fluxes through closed surfaces, even in the absence of
magnetic sources. To an observer for whom the non-orientability of space appears to be confined to a certain finite region
of space, such a magnetic flux appears as a magnetic charge quasi-localised in that region. In this paper it is shown that
this effect is a physical manifestation of the existence of torsion cycles of codimension one in the homology of space. |
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