Topology change and causal continuity

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 1998, Pages

  Surya, Sumati ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

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EID: 0000274643     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.124019     Document Type: Article

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