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Nonzero flat test field is not a coupled flat solution
Statement refuted
For , every smooth source-free Maxwell field on a prescribed Minkowski metric is an electrovacuum solution with that same flat metric.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The tensor system and constraint conventions of Electrovacuum tensor Cauchy system and Constrained electrovacuum initial data, with , , , and .
Electrovacuum tensor Cauchy system: a coupled solution must satisfy both Maxwell equations and .
Maxwell stress algebra and covariant conservation: for and , .
Gauss-Codazzi and Maxwell initial constraints: any smooth coupled solution induces data satisfying the Hamiltonian constraint.
Counterexample
Given: The system and constraint conventions above; , , and a fixed (tesla in the SI interpretation).
Take with length coordinates , metric , orientation , and future field ; in the SI interpretation . Set . The metric coefficients and those of and are constant, so the curvature vanishes and . Hence this is a smooth source-free Maxwell field on the prescribed Minkowski background.
On the slice , the data are , , , and . The Hamiltonian constraint from [F3] would require , because and . This is impossible since and . Hence the given flat Maxwell test field is not a coupled electrovacuum solution with that metric.