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k-Essence, superluminal propagation, causality and emergent geometry

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arxiv 0708.0561 v1 pith:DMXQ6EKU submitted 2007-08-03 hep-th astro-phgr-qc

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The k-essence theories admit in general the superluminal propagation of the perturbations on classical backgrounds. We show that in spite of the superluminal propagation the causal paradoxes do not arise in these theories and in this respect they are not less safe than General Relativity.

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