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The completion of a chronological space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. M. J. Woodhouse
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of London, King's College

Abstract

The problem of completing the mathematical structures abstracted from the time ordering of the events in the space-times of general relativity is motivated and solved. The new construction is compared with that of Geroch, Kronheimer and Penrose (5).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1974

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