Time-symmetric conformally flat vacuum initial data ($K_{ij}=0,{\gamma }_{ij}={\psi }^4{\delta }_{ij},\Delta \psi =0$)

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 $\mathcal{R}=-8{\psi }^{-5}\Delta \psi$, with a nonzero conformal factor. Thus a harmonic function supplies the data on its domain. A positive example is $\psi =1+a/r$ 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.