Causally pathological space-times are physically relevant

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

doi:10.1142/s0218271805007760

Causally pathological space-times are physically relevant

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

Authors

Veronika E. Hubeny

Mukund Rangamani

Professor Simon Ross s.f.ross@durham.ac.uk
Professor

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