Causally pathological space-times are physically relevant

Hubeny, Veronika E.; Rangamani, Mukund; Ross, Simon F.

Abstract

We argue that in the context of string theory, the usual restriction to globally hyperbolic space–times should be considerably relaxed. We exhibit an example of a space–time which only satisfies the causal condition, and so is arbitrarily close to admitting closed causal curves, but which has a well-behaved dual description, free of paradoxes.

Citation

Hubeny, V. E., Rangamani, M., & Ross, S. F. (2005). Causally pathological space-times are physically relevant. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 14(12), 2227-2232. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271805007760

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2005
• Deposit Date: Mar 17, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 18, 2015
• Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics D
• Print ISSN: 0218-2718
• Electronic ISSN: 1793-6594
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 2227-2232
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271805007760
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1561526