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Guest
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:12 am
Hello,
any example of spacetime which is not locally conformally flat?
Thank you
Marc Nardmann
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:14 am
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principalbundles@yahoo.it wrote:

Quote:
Hello,
any example of spacetime which is not locally conformally flat?

Take any (at least 4-dimensional) spacetime whose Weyl tensor does not
vanish identically. Almost every spacetime will do, e.g. the
Schwarzschild metric.


-- Marc Nardmann
 
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