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Conform invariance and Mach's principle in cosmology

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Einstein's conform-invariant light metrics g'ik=(WiklmWiklm)1/2 glk imply a Machian cosmology and exclude conformally flat space-times.

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Treder, HJ. Conform invariance and Mach's principle in cosmology. Found Phys 22, 1089–1093 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00733397

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