2009Journal of Physics Conference SeriesOpen access

On the existence of time in non-singular spacetimes

E. Minguzzi

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I show that a physically reasonable spacetime (i.e. a chronological spacetime in which the null convergence and the null genericity conditions hold) which is null geodesically complete admits a time function.

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I show that a physically reasonable spacetime (i.e. a chronological spacetime in which the null convergence and the null genericity conditions hold) which is null geodesically complete admits a time function.

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I show that a physically reasonable spacetime (i.e. a chronological spacetime in which the null convergence and the null genericity conditions hold) which is null geodesically complete admits a time function.

Key concepts: Null (SQL), Spacetime, Convergence (economics), Space time, Function (biology), Mathematical physics, Physics, Mathematics

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