The nature of spacetime singularities

100 Years of Relativity: Space-Time Structure: Einstein and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 76-92

  Rendall, Alan D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812700988_0003     Document Type: Chapter

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