A Local Analytic Characterization of Schwarzschild Metrics

Abstract

A local characterization of Schwarzschild metrics is made by showing the space-time is locally a 2 by 2 warped product and admitting a static reference frame on its certain open subsets under some assumptions on the global analytic structure and stress-energy tensor of the space-time, such as, assuming the existence of solutions to certain partial differential equations and the existence of a radiation stress-energy tensor consistent with these solutions on the space-time. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.