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Stressless Schwarzschild

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This self-contained pedagogical simple explicit 6-step derivation of the Schwarzschild solution, in “\(3 + 1\)” formulation and conformal spatial gauge, (almost) avoids all affinity, curvature and index gymnastics.

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Acknowledgments

I thank R. Beig, and J. Franklin for useful discussions. This work was supported by Grants NSF PHY-1266107 and DOE DEFG02-16493ER40701.

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  1. Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

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  2. Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA

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Deser, S. Stressless Schwarzschild. Gen Relativ Gravit 46, 1615 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-013-1615-9

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