Closed Timelike Curves from a Vacuum Traveling Wave
Abstract
We construct an exact vacuum spacetime that develops closed timelike curves from regular, asymptotically flat initial data respecting the weak, dominant, and strong energy conditions. Einstein's equations fix the geometry through two functions, a harmonic transverse profile and a traveling-wave mode, whose evolution drives the closed curves of the time-machine core from spacelike to timelike. The chronology horizon admits a degenerate limit in which its generating closed null geodesic has vanishing boost and optical scalars, the conditions for a Killing spinor.
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