Recommended Citation
Preprint version. Published in The Big Bang: Theory, Assumptions, and Problems, March 1, 2012, pages 173-184.
Abstract
Several papers and books by C. Isham, C.Isham-A. Doering, F. Van Oystaeyen, A.Mallios-I. Raptis, C. Mulvey, and Guts and Grinkevich, have been published on the methods of categories and sheaves to study quantum gravity. Needless to say, there are well-written treatises on quantum gravity whose methods are non-categorical and non-sheaf theoretic. This paper may be one of the first papers explaining the methods of sheaves with minimally required background that retains experimental applications. Temporal topos (t-topos) is related to the topos approach to quantum gravity being developed by Prof. Chris Isham of the Oxford-Imperial research group (with its foundations inthe work of F. W. Lawvere). However, in spite of strong influence from papers by Isham, our method of t-topos is much more direct in the following sense. Our approach is much closer to the familiar applications of the original algebraic geometric topos where little logic is involved.
Disciplines
Mathematics
Copyright
2012 Nova Publishers.
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