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Caustics of space-time foliation

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It is shown that the gravitational singularities described as space-time foliation singularities are caustics and topological reconstructions.

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  1. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, USSR

    G. A. Sardanashvili

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 32–37, September, 1988.

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Sardanashvili, G.A. Caustics of space-time foliation. Soviet Physics Journal 31, 716–719 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895978

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