Gott time machines in anti-de Sitter space

DOI10.1007/BF02105083zbMath0851.53073arXivgr-qc/9501010OpenAlexW2005092952MaRDI QIDQ1915094

Sören Holst

Publication date: 4 November 1996

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9501010

zbMATH Keywords

anti-de Sitter spaceclosed timelike curvesnon-vanishing cosmological constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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