nLab Robert Geroch

Robert Paul Geroch

Selected writings

Concerning spin structures on 1+3D Lorentzian manifolds (and proving that these exists iff there exists a framing):

On Cauchy surfaces in globally hyperbolic spacetimes, and proving the the Geroch splitting theorem:

On general relativity (gravity):

On computability and physics (cf. computable physics):

On quantum mechanics:

On mathematical physics, making explicit the categories (and some elementary category theory) of some of its basic ingredients:

On partial differential equations appearing in physics:

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