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http://dx.doi.org/10.4134/BKMS.2013.50.2.441

ON NULL CUT POINTS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACETIMES

Kim, Do-Hyung (Department of Applied Mathematics College of Advanced Science Dankook University)
Kim, Byung Hak (Department of Applied Mathematics College of Applied Science Kyung Hee University)

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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.50, no.2, 2013 , pp. 441-444 More about this Journal

Abstract

It is shown that any two-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime with noncompact Cauchy surfaces has no null cut points.

Keywords

Lorentzian geometry; general relativity; causality; Cauchy surface; space-time; global hyperbolicity; null cut point;

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