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Globally hyperbolic spacetime

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A globally hyperbolic spacetime has no causal pathologies and admits a Cauchy hypersurface intersected exactly once by every inextendible causal curve.
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Globally hyperbolic spacetime
A Cauchy hypersurface is an achronal hypersurface met exactly once by every inextendible timelike curve. Its topology records the global spatial topology of a globally hyperbolic spacetime.

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