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arxiv: gr-qc/9711074 · v1 · pith:DU6K3L3Inew · submitted 1997-11-25 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph

A Self-Consistent Vacuum for Misner Space and the Chronology Protection Conjecture

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In this paper we find a self-consistent vacuum for Misner space. For this "adapted" Rindler vacuum the renormalized stress-energy tensor is zero throughout the Misner space. A point-like particle detector traveling on a timelike geodesic in a Misner space with this vacuum detects nothing. Misner space with this vacuum thus creates no problems for time travel in and of itself but a time traveler may pose a danger to himself and to the spacetime.

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