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Causality in non-Hausdorff space-times

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Some general properties of completely separable, non-Hausdorff manifolds are studied and the notion of a non-Hausdorff space-time is introduced. It is shown that such a space-time must, under very general conditions, display a kind of causal anomaly.

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Hajicek, P. Causality in non-Hausdorff space-times. Commun.Math. Phys. 21, 75–84 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01646486

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