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Instability of spacelike and null orbifold singularities
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Time dependent orbifolds with spacelike or null singularities have recently been studied as simple models of cosmological singularities. We show that their apparent simplicity is an illusion: the introduction of a single particle causes the spacetime to collapse to a strong curvature singularity (a big crunch), even in regions arbitrarily far from the particle.
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- Authors
- Horowitz, G. T., & Polchinski, J.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2002-11-25
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- 1089-4918
- OpenAlex
- W2165154082
- Cited by
- 208
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 23.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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