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On the bundle of principal connections and the stability of b-incompleteness of manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. Canarutto  and
C. T. J. Dodson
D. Canarutto
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Institute‘G. Sansone’, University of Florence
C. T. J. Dodson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Lancaster
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Abstract

We make use of the universal connection on the bundle of principal connections; the bundle structure is governed by the action of the group on the first jet bundle. Each section determines a connection in the principal bundle, which in the case of the frame bundle allows a metric completion projecting onto the corresponding b-completion. It is shown that b-incompleteness of the base manifold is stable under perturbations of the chosen section. Hence, for instance, for (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds including spacetimes, b-incompleteness is a stable condition under conformal deformations of the metric. This reinforces the belief that general relativistic singularities cannot be removed by quantization.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 1 , July 1985 , pp. 51 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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