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Complete Einstein metrics are geodesically rigid

Differential Geometry 2011-08-08 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove that every complete Einstein (Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian) metric gg is geodesically rigid: if any other complete metric gˉ\bar g has the same (unparametrized) geodesics with gg, then the Levi-Civita connections of gg and gˉ\bar g coincide.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3169,
  title  = {Complete Einstein metrics are geodesically rigid},
  author = {Volodymyr Kiosak and Vladimir S. Matveev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3169},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

misprints corrected, references updated. 22 pages, one .eps figure

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