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A note on maximal and minimal causal spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Sribatsa Nanda
Sribatsa Nanda
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Regional Engineering College, Rourkela-769008 (Orissa), India
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Abstract

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It is shown in this note that the supremum and infimum of all causal topologies on Minkowski space are not causal. It is further shown that maximal and minimal elements exist in the set of all principal causal spaces.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , January 1980 , pp. 357 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1980

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