2 N ov 1 99 4 WISC - MILW - 94 - TH - 22 Existence and uniqueness theorems for massless fields on a class of spacetimes with closed timelike curves .
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We study the massless scalar field on asymptotically flat spacetimes with closed timelike curves (CTC’s), in which all future-directed CTC’s traverse one end of a handle (wormhole) and emerge from the other end at an earlier time. For a class of static geometries of this type, and for smooth initial data with all derivatives in L2 on I−, we prove existence of smooth solutions
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تاریخ انتشار 2008