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Topological Censorship and Chronology Protection

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Gravitation and Cosmology

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 211))

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Despite the presence of closed timelike curves and of structures with noneuclidean topology in the space of solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations, neither appears common in the macroscopic universe. Several recent results on topological censorship and chronology protection seek to explain why the macroscopic topology and causal structure of spacetime are ordinary.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

    J. L. Friedman

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  1. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India

    Sanjeev Dhurandhar  & Thanu Padmanabhan  & 

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Friedman, J.L. (1997). Topological Censorship and Chronology Protection. In: Dhurandhar, S., Padmanabhan, T. (eds) Gravitation and Cosmology. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 211. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5812-1_11

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