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Timelike vector field

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A timelike vector field assigns a timelike vector continuously or smoothly to every event in its domain. A globally defined such field gives a time orientation, but it need not be a Killing vector field or a timelike geodesic vector field.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2016 / iii / Paper 311 / 3 / b / i / Solution
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