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Kinks and time machines

Andrew Chamblin, G. W. Gibbons, and Alan R. Steif
Phys. Rev. D 50, R2353(R) – Published 15 August 1994
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Abstract

We show that it is not possible to smooth out the metric on the Deutsch-Politzer time machine to obtain an everywhere nonsingular asymptotically flat Lorentzian metric.

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.50.R2353

    ©1994 American Physical Society

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    Andrew Chamblin, G. W. Gibbons, and Alan R. Steif

    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, England

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    Vol. 50, Iss. 4 — 15 August 1994

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