Dark matter as residual of topological changes

Abstract

We investigate in this paper the possibilities that the observed cold dark matter density can be generated by decays of a heavy scalar field which dominate the universe at the quantum regime. Indeed, we present two approaches based on an extension of quantum field theory to the case when spacetime topology fluctuates (spacetime foam, at the quantum regime). In this extension the number of bosonic fields becomes a variable and the ground state is characterized by a finite particle number density. In the second approach it is the gauge-group parameters which became dynamical. This is tributary on the Centrally Extended Group and Cohomology.