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Phys. Rev. D 50, R2353–R2355 (1994)

Kinks and time machines

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Andrew Chamblin, G. W. Gibbons, and Alan R. Steif
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, England

We show that it is not possible to smooth out the metric on the Deutsch-Politzer time machine to obtain an everywhere nonsingular asymptotically flat Lorentzian metric.

© 1994 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.50.R2353
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.50.R2353
PACS:
04.20.Gz, 03.65.Bz