On analytic asymptotically-flat vacuum and electrovac metrics, periodic in time
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-05-06 v3
Abstract
By an argument similar to that of Gibbons and Stewart (1984), we show that there are no weakly-asymptotically-simple, analytic vacuum or electrovac solutions of the Einstein equations which are periodic in time.
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@article{arxiv.0902.1061,
title = {On analytic asymptotically-flat vacuum and electrovac metrics, periodic in time},
author = {Paul Tod},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.1061},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
11 pages; this paper is withdrawn as it contains an error which is corrected in the jointly-authored item arXiv:1003.3402.