On stationary solutions to the vacuum Einstein field equations
Abstract
We prove that any 4-dimensional geodesically complete spacetime with a timelike Killing field satisfying the vacuum Einstein field equation $Ric(g_{M})=\lambda g_{M}$ with nonnegative cosmological constant $\lambda\geq 0$ is flat. When dim $\geq 5$, if the spacetime is assumed to be static additionally, we prove that its universal cover splits isometrically as a product of a Ricci flat Riemannian manifold and a real line.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2016
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1606.00543
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1606.00543
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160600543C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- Primary 53C50;
- Secondary 83C20
- E-Print:
- 24 pages