https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02241-x
Regular Article
Introducing a general time machine solution and analysis of a vacuum spacetime generating closed timelike curves
Department of Physics, Gauhati University, 781014, Guwahati, Assam, India
Received:
16
June
2021
Accepted:
29
November
2021
Published online:
13
December
2021
We present a general time machine spacetime in which closed timelike curves are formed at some particular instant of time from an initial spacelike hypersurface from well-behaved initial conditions. We show that a known result in the literature can be obtained as a particular case of the general spacetime. Finally, from the generalized spacetime, we obtain a vacuum solution exhibiting causality violation. The physical properties of this solution are explored in some detail. The formation of closed timelike curves is analogous to that of the two-dimensional Misner space metric.
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