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arxiv: 0806.3169 · v2 · pith:5QSONXRZnew · submitted 2008-06-19 · 🧮 math.DG · gr-qc· math-ph· math.MP

Complete Einstein metrics are geodesically rigid

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We prove that every complete Einstein (Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian) metric $g$ is geodesically rigid: if any other complete metric $\bar g$ has the same (unparametrized) geodesics with $g$, then the Levi-Civita connections of $g$ and $\bar g$ coincide.

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