On the nonexistence of conformally flat slices in the Kerr and other stationary spacetimes
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🌀 gr-qc
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nullstationaryconformallyflatinfinitysmoothsolutionstype
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It is proved that a stationary solutions to the vacuum Einstein field equations with non-vanishing angular momentum have no Cauchy slice that is maximal, conformally flat, and non-boosted. The proof is based on results coming from a certain type of asymptotic expansions near null and spatial infinity --which also show that the developments of Bowen-York type of data cannot have a development admitting a smooth null infinity--, and from the fact that stationary solutions do admit a smooth null infinity.
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