2021Theoretical PhysicsOpen access

Feynman Propagator for Closed Timelike Curves in the Kerr Metric

Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de México, México, Miguel Socolovsky

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We compute the Feynman propagator associated with closed timelike curves in the neighborhood of the ring singularity in the Kerr metric. The propagator is well defined outside r = 0, where it ceases to exist.

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We compute the Feynman propagator associated with closed timelike curves in the neighborhood of the ring singularity in the Kerr metric. The propagator is well defined outside r = 0, where it ceases to exist.

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We compute the Feynman propagator associated with closed timelike curves in the neighborhood of the ring singularity in the Kerr metric. The propagator is well defined outside r = 0, where it ceases to exist.

Key concepts: Propagator, Feynman diagram, Closed timelike curve, Kerr metric, Metric (unit), Mathematical physics, Singularity, Physics

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