Complete Einstein metrics are geodesically rigid

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0719-7MaRDI QIDQ1028559zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. Kiosak, Vladimir S. Matveev

Publication date 6 July 2009

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3169

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein manifoldgeodesically equivalent metricsaffine equivalent metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Rigidity results (53C24) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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

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