What is the meaning of non-uniqueness of FRW and Schwarzschild metrics?
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🌀 gr-qc
astro-ph.CO
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geodesicspace-timeequationsinvariantmetricmetricsmotionparticles
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It is shown that any theory of gravitation, based on the hypothesis of the geodesic motion of test particles must be invariant under geodesic (projecive) mappings of the used space-time. The reason is that due to invariance of the equations of geodesic lines under a continuous group of transformations of the coefficients of affine connection, there is a wide class of transformations of the geometrical objects of Riemannian space-time which leaves invariant the equations of motion of test particles. The FRW metric in cosmology and the Schwarzschild metric are a good example to make sure that the standard space-time metrics does not determine the gravitational field unequivocally.
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