Killing spectroscopy of closed timelike curves
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-08-16 v2
Abstract
We analyse the existence of closed timelike curves in spacetimes which possess an isometry. In particular we check which discrete quotients of such spaces lead to closed timelike curves. As a by-product of our analysis, we prove that the notion of existence or non-existence of closed timelike curves is a T-duality invariant notion, whenever the direction along which we apply such transformations is everywhere spacelike. Our formalism is straightforwardly applied to supersymmetric theories. We provide some new examples in the context of D-branes and generalized pp-waves.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310255,
title = {Killing spectroscopy of closed timelike curves},
author = {Liat Maoz and Joan Simón},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310255},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
1+35 pages, no figures; v2, new references added. Final version to appear in JHEP