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We construct a family of supersymmetric solutions to supergravity in three dimensions with a negative cosmological constant, that correspond to type IIB seven branes wrapped on an internal S3×T4. These solutions are generalizations of the three dimensional Gödel universe and have closed timelike curves. We propose an enhançon-like mechanism for excising the closed timelike curve region by including the effects of additional light degrees of freedom. These take the form of tensionless 7-brane probes, effectively described through the backreaction of a smeared domain wall. The absence of closed timelike curves in the asymptotic AdS3 geometries obtained in this way is shown to be equivalent to a unitarity bound in the dual CFT, known as the stringy exclusion principle.
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Raeymaekers, J., Van den Bleeken, D. & Vercnocke, B. Chronology protection and the stringy exclusion principle. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 37 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2011)037
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