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Causality and Unitarity Are Not Violated in Space-Times with an Additional Compact Time-like Dimension

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-06-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The hypothesis that the causal properties of space-time, as well as other properties of physical systems like unitarity, charge conservation, etc., might be decided by the higher dimensional structure (in particular, higher-dimensional physical laws), rather than by the four-dimensional one, is explored in order to evade the most awkward problems of higher-dimensional theories with compact extra time-like dimensions: violation of causality and of unitarity.

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@article{arxiv.0706.2400,
  title  = {Causality and Unitarity Are Not Violated in Space-Times with an Additional Compact Time-like Dimension},
  author = {Israel Quiros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2400},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures. Argument on the phenomenology of the extra time-like dimension modified, references added