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Motion of charged particles in a NUTty Einstein-Maxwell spacetime and causality violation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-03-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the motion of electrically charged test particles in spacetimes with closed timelike curves, a subset of the black hole or wormhole Reissner-Nordstr\"om-NUT spacetimes without periodic identification of time. We show that, while in the wormhole case there are closed worldlines inside a potential well, the wordlines of initially distant charged observers moving under the action of the Lorentz force can never close or self-intersect. This means that for these observers causality is preserved, which is an instance of our weak chronology protection criterion.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08457,
  title  = {Motion of charged particles in a NUTty Einstein-Maxwell spacetime and causality violation},
  author = {Gérard Clément and Mourad Guenouche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08457},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

16 pages, title changed, version to be published in Gen. Rel. Grav