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[en] The author attempts to clear up the causal 'paradox' often associated with the existence of tacyons. This leads to a discussion of the nature of tachyon messages and the problems involved in their interpretation. (W.D.L.)
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Recami, E. (ed.) (Catania Univ. (Italy). Ist. di Fisica Teorica); p. 27-30; ISBN 0 444 85165 8;
; 1978; p. 27-30; North-Holland; Amsterdam, Netherlands; First session of the interdisciplinary seminars on 'tachyons and related topics'; Erice, Italy; 1 - 15 Sep 1976

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Stuart, C.I.J.M.
Vienna Univ. (Austria). Inst. fuer Theoretische Physik1989
Vienna Univ. (Austria). Inst. fuer Theoretische Physik1989
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[en] Costa de Beauregard's proposal concerning physical retrocausality has been shown to fail on two crucial points. However, it is argued that his proposal still merits serious attention. The argument arises from showing that his proposal reveals a paradox involving relations between conditional probabilities, statistical correlations and reciprocal causalities of the type exhibited by cooperative dynamics in physical systems. 4 refs. (Author)
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1989; 8 p
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[en] The usual phenomenological transfer laws in relativistic thermodynamics, deducible from relativistic kinetic theory, are known to transgress the laws of causality. The underlying hypotheses are examined here and the transport equations, more complicated but causal, are deduced
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75 - Paris (France); Colloques internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; no. 220; p. 339-342; 1974; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Paris, France; International colloquium on gravitational waves and radiations; Paris, France; 18 Jun 1973
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Costa e Silva, Ivan P; Minguzzi, Ettore, E-mail: ettore.minguzzi@unifi.it, E-mail: pontual.ivan@ufsc.br2020
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[en] A number of techniques in Lorentzian geometry, such as those used in the proofs of singularity theorems, depend on certain smooth coverings retaining interesting global geometric properties, including causal ones. In this note we give explicit examples showing that, unlike some of the more commonly adopted rungs of the causal ladder such as strong causality or global hyperbolicity, less-utilized conditions such as causal continuity or causal simplicity do not in general pass to coverings, as already speculated by one of the authors (EM). As a consequence, any result which relies on these causality conditions transferring to coverings must be revised accordingly. In particular, some amendments in the statement and proof of a version of the Gannon–Lee singularity theorem previously given by one of us (IPCS) are also presented here that address a gap in its original proof, simultaneously expanding its scope to spacetimes with lower causality. (note)
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/abb9ec; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Minguzzi, E, E-mail: ettore.minguzzi@unifi.it2008
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[en] Causal continuity is usually defined by imposing the conditions (i) distinction and (ii) reflectivity. It is proved here that a new causality property which stays between weak distinction and causality, called feeble distinction, can actually replace distinction in the definition of causal continuity. An intermediate proof shows that feeble distinction and future (past) reflectivity imply past (resp. future) distinction. Some new characterizations of weak distinction and reflectivity are given
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S0264-9381(08)68755-9; Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/25/7/075015; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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[en] Tachyon paradoxes, including causality paradoxes, have persisted within tachyon theories and left little hope for the existence of observable tachyons. A way is presented to solve the causality paradoxes, along with two other paradoxes, by the introduction of an absolute frame of reference in which a tachyon effect may never precede its cause. Relativity for ordinary matter is unaffected by this, even if the tachyons couple to ordinary particles. Violations of the principle of relativity due to the absolute frame would appear only in the case of free tachyons
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Absolute reference frame
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Foundations of Physics; v. 7(7/8); p. 617-627
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Il y a cinquante ans naissait la mecanique quantique
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Recherche (Paris); v. 5(47); p. 644-653
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Wechs, Julian; Abbott, Alastair A; Branciard, Cyril, E-mail: julian.wechs@neel.cnrs.fr2019
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[en] The concept of causal nonseparability has been recently introduced, in opposition to that of causal separability, to qualify physical processes that locally abide by the laws of quantum theory, but cannot be embedded in a well-defined global causal structure. While the definition is unambiguous in the bipartite case, its generalisation to the multipartite case is not so straightforward. Two seemingly different generalisations have been proposed, one for a restricted tripartite scenario and one for the general multipartite case. Here we compare the two, showing that they are in fact inequivalent. We propose our own definition of causal (non)separability for the general case, which—although a priori subtly different—turns out to be equivalent to the concept of ‘extensible causal (non)separability’ introduced before, and which we argue is a more natural definition for general multipartite scenarios. We then derive necessary, as well as sufficient conditions to characterise causally (non)separable processes in practice. These allow one to devise practical tests, by generalising the tool of witnesses of causal nonseparability. (paper)
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aaf352; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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New Journal of Physics; ISSN 1367-2630;
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[en] It is pointed out that both classical Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics and its finite quantized generalization inevitably lead to microscopic causality violation. As there is some evidence for such effects in proton Compton scattering, there is possibly reason to prefer such absorber theories of action at a distance over field theories as the more reasonable microscopic description of nature
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Álvarez, Pablo Morales; Sánchez, Miguel, E-mail: pablomorales@correo.ugr.es, E-mail: sanchezm@ugr.es2015
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[en] Globally hyperbolic spacetimes admitting infinitely many causal (and timelike) homotopy classes of curves joining two prescribed points, are exhibited and discussed. (note)
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/19/197001; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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