Big Bang and Topology

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the initial state of the universe at the Big Bang. By using ideas of Freedman in the proof of the disk embedding theorem for 4-manifolds, we describe the corresponding spacetime as gravitational instanton. The spatial space is a fractal space (wild embedded 3-sphere). Then we construct the quantum state from this fractal space. This quantum state is part of the string algebra of Ocneanu. There is a link to the Jones polynomial and to Witten's topological field theory. Using this link, we are able to determine the physical theory (action) to be the Chern-Simons functional. The gauge fixing of this action determines the foliation of the spacetime and as well the smoothness properties. Finally, we determine the quantum symmetry of the quantum state to be the enveloped Lie algebra $U_{q}(sl_{2}(\mathbb{C}))$ where $q$ is the 4th root of unity.