Tidal effects cannot be absent in a vacuum
arXiv:gr-qc/0303056 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/11/103
Abstract
It is shown that there are no vacuum space-times (with or without cosmological constant) for which the Weyl-tensor is purely gravito-magnetic with respect to a congruence of freely falling observers.
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