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We show that although the equations of the relativistic theory of gravity admit nontrivial vacuum cosmological solutions, all these solutions contradict the causality principle. The vacuum cosmological solution is therefore unique and trivial: the gravitational field is zero.
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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 161, No. 1, pp. 115–119, October, 2009.
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Chugreev, Y.V. The vacuum cosmological solution is unique in the relativistic theory of gravity. Theor Math Phys 161, 1420–1423 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-009-0128-x
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