For and , the conformal factor makes spatial translation a Killing vector field. Using proper time, its conserved momentum is . With and this becomes
Thus alone is not constant. Set . Every unparametrized timelike geodesic in a connected nonzero- patch has the form
The nonvertical paths have and proper-time parametrization
The chart excludes , where its metric is degenerate; a vertical family must not be lost by dividing by the conserved momentum.
For a spatial initial slice with vanishing extrinsic curvature, the vacuum momentum constraint is automatic and the Hamiltonian constraint requires zero Ricci scalar. In three spatial dimensions, the indicated conformally flat metric has , with a nonzero conformal factor. Thus a harmonic function supplies the data on its domain. A positive example is on a punctured or exterior region. There is no nonconstant globally smooth example on all of Euclidean three-space tending to one at infinity, by the maximum principle for harmonic functions. Time symmetry of an initial slice does not imply that its entire evolved spacetime is static.