On Cauchy Surfaces in Conformally Stationary Spacetimes
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چکیده
A criterion for a spacelike hypersurface in a conformally stationary spacetime to be a Cauchy hypersurface is given. The criterion is based on the forward and the backward completeness of a non-reversible Finsler metric associated to the hypersurface.
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