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arxiv: gr-qc/0107055 · v1 · submitted 2001-07-16 · 🌀 gr-qc

Recurrence metrics and the physics of closed time-like curves

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We investigate vacuum solutions of Einstein's equation for a universe with an S^1 topology of time. Such a universe behaves like a time-machine and has geodesics which coincide with closed time-like curves (CTCs). A system evolving along a CTC experiences the Loschmidt velocity reversion and undergoes a recurrence commensurate with the universal period. We indicate why this universe is free of the causality paradoxes, usually associated with CTCs.

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