An extendible spacetime without closed timelike curves whose every extension contains closed timelike curves
Abstract
By removing a fractal from time-rolled Minkowski spacetime, we construct an extendible spacetime without closed timelike curves whose every extension contains closed timelike curves. This settles a question posed by Geroch.
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