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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 49 4 b Solution by
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Use the convention and . Each independent two-form has only one coordinate-plane wedge, so the Ricci tensor is diagonal. Contracting the six coefficients givesBut , soIn coordinate-independent form, . Thus the vacuum Einstein field equations hold withThe curvature radius is one in the metric's normalization. The parameter changes the individual curvature 2-forms but cancels from their Ricci contraction. For this is Anti-de Sitter spacetime; for nonzero it is the planar Einstein metric with cubic radial function, with a nontrivial Weyl tensor rather than universally constant sectional curvature. The result is local on regular coordinate patches; a zero of invalidates this particular static coframe, not the tensor equation in a suitable regular extension.
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