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 is geodesically rigid: if any other complete metric has the same (unparametrized) geodesics with , then the Levi-Civita connections of and coincide.
Cite
@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