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On the structure of causal spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. H. Kronheimer  and
R. Penrose
E. H. Kronheimer
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, London
R. Penrose
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, London
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Abstract

The paper examines the structure obtained by abstracting from the conventional (manifold) representation of relativistic space-time the concept of an event-set equipped with two partial orderings, whose counterparts are the notions ‘causally precedes’ and ‘chronologically precedes in the history of some observer’.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 481 - 501
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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