Complete Einstein metrics are geodesically rigid
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gr-qcmath-phmath.MP
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completeeinsteingeodesicallymetricrigidcoincideconnectionsevery
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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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