Existence and uniqueness theorems for massless fields on a class of spacetimes with closed timelike curves

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 495-529

  Friedman, J L ^a,b   Morris, M S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0008800141     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200050118     Document Type: Article

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