Impossibility of superluminal signalling rules out causal loops in conical spacetimes

In PRL 129, 110401 it was shown that it is theoretically possible to have operationally detectable causal loops without violating the principle of no superluminal signalling (NSS) in (1+1)-Minkowski spacetime. Whether or not such causal loops are also possible in $d > 1$ spatial dimensions, has remained a key open question. We resolve this question by showing that in a wide class of "conical" spacetimes, including Minkowski with d > 1, NSS does rule out all operationally detectable causal loops, in classical, quantum and post-quantum theories. This establishes that the relationship between the relativistic principles of NSS and no causal loops depends inherently on the geometry of spacetime.

Source: arXiv:2606.20476v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20476v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.20476v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20476v1