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On the structure of causal spaces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Abstract
The paper examines the structure obtained by abstracting from the conventional (manifold) representation of relativistic space-time the concept of an event-set equipped with two partial orderings, whose counterparts are the notions ‘causally precedes’ and ‘chronologically precedes in the history of some observer’.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 481 - 501
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