"Cauchy horizon" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Cauchy horizons [plural]
Etymology: Named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy Head templates: {{en-noun}} Cauchy horizon (plural Cauchy horizons)
  1. (physics) A lightlike boundary of the domain of validity of a Cauchy problem, in which one side of the horizon contains closed space-like geodesics and the other side contains closed timelike geodesics. Wikipedia link: Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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