5 D ec 2 00 8 Chronological null complete spacetimes admit a global time
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The result “chronological spacetimes without lightlike lines are stably causal” is announced and motivated. It implies that chronological spacetimes which are null geodesically complete and satisfy the null genericity and the null (averaged) energy condition admit a time function.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008