English

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.)