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Tidal effects cannot be absent in a vacuum

Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Author: Norbert Van den Bergh
Institution: Ghent University
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2168356382
FWCI: 1.781
Cites: 5
Cited by: 20
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