| 词条 | Timelike simply connected |
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Suppose a Lorentzian manifold contains a closed timelike curve (CTC). No CTC can be continuously deformed as a CTC (is timelike homotopic) to a point, as that point would not be causally well behaved.[1] Therefore, any Lorentzian manifold containing a CTC is said to be timelike multiply connected. A Lorentzian manifold that does not contain a CTC is said to be timelike simply connected. Any Lorentzian manifold which is timelike multiply connected has a diffeomorphic universal covering space which is timelike simply connected. For instance, a three-sphere with a Lorentzian metric is timelike multiply connected, (because any compact Lorentzian manifold contains a CTC), but has a diffeomorphic universal covering space which contains no CTC (and is therefore not compact). By contrast, a three-sphere with the standard metric is simply connected, and is therefore its own universal cover. References1. ^{{cite journal|last=Monroe |first=Hunter |title=Are Causality Violations Undesirable? |date=2008-10-29 |doi=10.1007/s10701-008-9254-9 |volume=38 |journal=Foundations of Physics |pages=1065–1069|arxiv=gr-qc/0609054 |bibcode=2008FoPh...38.1065M }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Timelike Simply Connected}} 3 : Algebraic topology|Homotopy theory|Lorentzian manifolds |
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