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Novosibirsk. Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 39–54, May–June, 1990.
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Levichev, A.V. Methods of investigation of the causal structure of homogeneous Lorentz manifolds. Sib Math J 31, 395–408 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00970346
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