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Vacuum Weyl tensors from hypersurface data (Eab​, Bab​)

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For a Ricci-flat spacetime with the stated Gauss–Codazzi equations for a spatial hypersurface and induced orientation ϵ~abc​=ndϵdabc​, the electric part of the Weyl tensor and magnetic part of the Weyl tensor satisfy
Eab​=Rab​+KKab​−Ka​cKcb​,Bab​=ϵ~a​cdDc​Kdb​.
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The electric relation comes from the vanishing spatial projection of the Ricci tensor. The magnetic relation combines the normal curvature projection with the sign ϵacde​nc=−ϵ~ade​.

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