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Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1386–1389 (1986)

Vacuum Space-Times That Admit No Maximal Slice

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Donald M. Witt
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201

Received 3 February 1986; published in the issue dated 22 September 1986

Every closed three-manifold occurs as a spacelike hypersurface of a vacuum space-time. For most of these three-manifolds, however, the vacuum space-times that contain them have no maximal slice. For asymptotically flat manifolds there are no restrictions on which three-manifolds can occur obeying the local energy conditions ρ>(JaJa)1/2 and the space-times that contain them in most cases have no maximal slice.

© 1986 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.1386
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.1386
PACS:
04.20.Fy, 02.40.+m, 04.20.Jb