Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1993-11-08
Phys.Rev.D49:1124-1125,1994
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
(to be published in Phys. Rev. D), 5 pages, REVTEX 3.0, NORDITA 93/62 A (Sept. 10/Revised Nov. 1, 1993)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1124
Near a spinning point particle in (2+1)-dimensional gravity (or near an infinitely thin, straight, spinning string in 3+1 dimensions) there is a region of space-time with closed timelike curves. Exact solutions for extended sources with apparently physically acceptable energy-momentum tensors, have produced the same exterior space-time structure. Here it is pointed out that in the case with torsion, closed timelike curves appear only for spin densities so high that the spin energy density is higher than the net effective energy density. In models without torsion, the presence of closed time-like curves is related to a heat flow of unphysical magnitude. This corroborates earlier arguments against the possibility of closed timelike curves in space-time geometries generated by physical sources.
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