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Vacuum spacetimes that admit no maximal slice

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States)
Every closed three-manifold occurs as a spacelike hypersurface of a vacuum spacetime. For most of these three-manifolds, however, the vacuum spacetimes that contain them have no maximal slice. For asymptotically flat manifolds there are no restrictions on which three-manifolds can occur obeying the local energy conditions rho> or =(J/sub a/J/sup a/)/sup 1/2/, and the spacetimes that contain them in most cases have no maximal slice.
Research Organization:
Department of Physics, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
OSTI ID:
5170271
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States) Vol. 57:12; ISSN PRLTA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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