The whole curvature tensor vanishes
Once we plug in the solution for the spacetime metric, we find that the
curvature of this spacetime is zero. One way of verifying this is to examine the
components of the Riemann tensor.
In[29]:=
Table[RiemannR[-i,-j,-k,-l],{i,3},{j,3},{k,3},{l,3}]
Out[29]=
{{{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}},
{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}},
{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}}},
{{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}},
{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}},
{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}}},
{{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}},
{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}},
{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}}}}
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