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On the dynamics of generators of Cauchy horizons

arXiv:gr-qc/9401015

Abstract

We discuss various features of the dynamical system determined by the flow of null geodesic generators of Cauchy horizons. Several examples with non--trivial (``chaotic'', ``strange attractors'', etc.) global behaviour are constructed. Those examples are relevant to the ``chronology protection conjecture'', and they show that the occurrence of ``fountains'' is {\em not} a generic feature of Cauchy horizons.

16 pages, preprint MPA 773, December 93, Latex