Causality Violation in Asymptotically Flat Space-Times
- 4 October 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 37 (14) , 879-882
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.37.879
Abstract
It is shown that a region containing closed timelike lines cannot evolve from regular initial data in a singularity-free asymptotically flat space-time. Furthermore, the causality assumption made in the black-hole uniqueness proofs is justified: It is demonstrated that no physically realistic nonsingular black hole can have a causality-violating exterior.Keywords
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