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Hypersurfaces of Five Dimensional Space-times

M. D. Maia

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9512002

Abstract

It is shown that a space-time hypersurface of a 5-dimensional Ricci-flat space-time has its energy momentum tensor algebrically related to its extrinsic curvature and to the Riemann curvature of the embedding space. It is also seen that the Einstein-Maxwell field does not arise naturally from this geometry, so that a Kaluza-Klein model based on it would require further assumptions.

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