Are causality violations undesirable?

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1065-1069

  Monroe, Hunter ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential geometry; General relativity; Spacetime topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349133945     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-008-9254-9     Document Type: Article

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