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principalbundles@yahoo.it
Mar19-07, 05:00 AM
Hello,
any example of spacetime which is not locally conformally flat?
Thank you

Marc Nardmann
Mar20-07, 05:00 AM
principalbundles@yahoo.it wrote:

> 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