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The completion of a chronological space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

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

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Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , November 1974 , pp. 531 - 544
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1974

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