Causality Violations in Cascade Models of Nuclear Collisions

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Transport models have successfully described many aspects of intermediate energy heavy-ion collision dynamics. As the energies increase in these models to the ultrarelativistic regime, Lorentz covariance and causality are not strictly respected. The standard argument is that such effects are not important to final results; but they have not been seriously considered at high energies. We point out how and why these happen, how serious of a problem they may be and suggest ways of reducing or eliminating the undesirable effects.
RevTeX, 23 pages, 9 (uuencoded) figures; to appear in Phys. Rev C

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