Remarks on "singularities"

Abstract

We present herewith certain thoughts on the important subject of nowadays physics, pertaining to the so-called ``singularities'', that emanated from looking at the theme in terms of ADG (: abstract differential geometry). Thus, according to the latter perspective, we can involve ``singularities'' in our arguments, while still employing fundamental differential-geometric notions such as connections, curvature, metric and the like, retaining also the form of standard important relations of the classical theory (e.g. Einstein and/or Yang-Mills equations, in vacuum), even within that generalized context of ADG. To wind up, we can extend (in point of fact, {calculate) over singularities classical differential-geometric relations/equations, without altering their forms and/or changing the standard arguments; the change concerns thus only the way, we employ the usual differential geometry of smooth manifolds, so that the base ``space'' acquires now quite a secondary role, not contributing at all (!) to the differential-geometric technique/mechanism that we apply. Thus, the latter by definition refers directly to the objects being involved--the objects that ``live on that space'', which by themselves are not, of course, ipso facto ``singular''!

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