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Quantum CTC's in General Relativity

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We review different spacetimes that contain nonchronal regions separated from the causal regions by chronology horizons and investigate their connection with some important aspects one would expect to be present in a final theory of quantum gravity, including: stability to classical and quantum metric fluctuations, boundary conditions of the universe and gravitational topological defects corresponding to spacetime kinks.

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  1. Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 121, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Luis J. Garay & Pedro F. González-Díaz

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Garay, L.J., González-Díaz, P.F. Quantum CTC's in General Relativity. General Relativity and Gravitation 33, 353–361 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002709503156

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