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On causality and closed geodesics of compact Lorentzian manifolds and static spacetimes (English)
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29 May 2006
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For a Lorentzian manifold compactness implies disturbance of causality. The present paper supports this general expectation by exact theorems. A Lorentzian manifold \((M,g)\) here is assumed to be \(C^\infty\), connected, and time-oriented. Every compact \((M,g)\) which admits a time-like conformal Killing vector field is shown to be totally vicious, i.e., the past and the future of any point is the whole of \(M\). Every compact \((M,g)\) conformal to a static spacetime is geodesically connected by causal geodesics and admits a time-like closed geodesic.
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closed geodesic
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geodesic connectedness
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static and stationary spacetimes
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causality
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totally vicious
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time-like geodesic
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Lorentzian manifolds
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