Closed timelike geodesics in compact spacetimes
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0002-9947,1088-6850
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-07-04127-x