Ricci-flat manifold

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Ricci-flat manifold by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
A Ricci-flat manifold has vanishing Ricci tensor. This is weaker than vanishing Riemann curvature tensor: the latter describes complete local flatness. A Kerr black hole supplies a Lorentzian manifold that is Ricci flat in its vacuum region but has nonzero Riemann curvature tensor.

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