M. J. REBOUÇAS
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Departmento de Relatividade e Partículas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil
A. F. F. TEIXEIRA
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Departmento de Relatividade e Partículas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil

Received 25 October 1997

Causal anomalies in two Kaluza–Klein gravity theories are examined, particularly as to whether these theories permit solutions in which the causality principle is violated. It is found that similarly to general relativity the field equations of the space–time–mass Kaluza–Klein (STM-KK) gravity theory do not exclude violation of causality of Gödel type, whereas the induced matter Kaluza–Klein (IM-KK) gravity rules out noncausal Gödel-type models. The induced matter version of general relativity is shown to be an efficient therapy for causal anomalies that occurs in a wide class of noncausal geometries. Perfect fluid and dust Gödel-type solutions of the STM-KK field equations are studied. It is shown that every Gödel-type perfect fluid solution is isometric to the unique dust solution of the STM-KK field equations. The question as to whether 5D Gödel-type noncausal geometries induce any physically acceptable 4D energy–momentum tensor is also addressed.