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Norbert Van den Bergh 2003 Class. Quantum Grav. 20 L165 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/11/103

Tidal effects cannot be absent in a vacuum

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

It is shown that there are no vacuum spacetimes (with or without cosmological constant) for which the Weyl-tensor is purely gravito-magnetic with respect to a congruence of freely falling observers.


PACS

04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

MSC

83F05 Cosmology

83C75 Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc.

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 11 (7 June 2003)

Received 8 April 2003

Published 16 May 2003



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