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Simple Quantum Systems in Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curves

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

Three simple examples illustrate properties of path integral amplitudes in fixed background spacetimes with closed timelike curves: non-relativistic potential scattering in the Born approximation is non-unitary, but both an example with hard spheres and the exact solution of a totally discrete model are unitary.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9207076,
  title  = {Simple Quantum Systems in Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curves},
  author = {H. David Politzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9207076},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, CALT-68-1805

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