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Blow-Up of Test Fields Near Cauchy Horizons

J. Rauch, A. D. Rendall

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9306027

Abstract

The behaviour of test fields near a compact Cauchy horizon is investigated. It is shown that solutions of nonlinear wave equations on Taub spacetime with generic initial data cannot be continued smoothly to both extensions of the spacetime through the Cauchy horizon. This is proved using an energy method. Similar results are obtained for the spacetimes of Moncrief containing a compact Cauchy horizon and for more general matter models.

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