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7 sphere, is there any physical interpretation of exotic spheres?
Basically an exotic sphere is topologically a sphere, but doesn't look like a one. Or more accurately:
homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the standard Euclidean n-sphere
The first exotic ...
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Large gauge transformations
I would like to understand what is the importance of large gauge transformations. I read that these gauge transformation cannot be deformed to the identity, but why should we care about that?
