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Static zero-energy parallel-spinor rigidity (E=0⇒∇μ​ϵ=0)

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The vacuum Witten-Nester identity makes a zero-energy Witten spinor parallel under the Sen spinor connection on a complete asymptotically flat slice. In an orthogonal static slicing, extrinsic curvature vanishes, so this spinor is intrinsically parallel. Contracting its spin-curvature integrability condition gives zero spatial Ricci tensor; in three dimensions this implies flatness. The static vacuum equation Di​Dj​N=NRij​(h) then gives a parallel lapse gradient, which asymptotic normalization forces to vanish. The time-independent spinor consequently extends to a spacetime parallel spinor, with Minkowski spacetime the complete regular asymptotically flat example.

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