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In this chapter we briefly discuss the causality theory of Lorentzian manifolds. We take a minimal approach; in particular, our definition of global hyperbolicity is apparently stronger than, but equivalent to, the usual one.
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Natário, J. (2021). Causality. In: An Introduction to Mathematical Relativity. Latin American Mathematics Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65683-6_3
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