Kinks and Time Machines
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-07 v3
Abstract
We show that it is not possible to smooth out the metric on the Deutsch-Politzer time machine to obtain an everywhere non-singular asymptotically flat Lorentzian metric.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9405001,
title = {Kinks and Time Machines},
author = {Andrew Chamblin and Gary Gibbons and Alan R. Steif},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9405001},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages of text and 3 figures (obtain figures from A. Chamblin at [email protected]), DAMTP preprint # R/94/17 (Original submission was slightly garbled.)