Abstract
Using symmetry arguments only, we show that every spacetime with mirror-symmetric spatial sections is necessarily conformally flat. The general form of the Ricci tensor of such spacetimes is also determined.
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Mirror symmetry and conformal flatness in general Relativity
Received04 Sept 2003
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