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CURVATURE TENSORS WHOSE JACOBI OR SZABÓ OPERATOR IS NILPOTENT ON NULL VECTORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2003

PETER GILKEY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, [email protected]
IVA STAVROV
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, [email protected]
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Abstract

The authors show that any $k$ -Osserman Lorentzian algebraic curvature tensor has constant sectional curvature, and give an elementary proof that any local 2-point homogeneous Lorentzian manifold has constant sectional curvature. They also show that a Szabó Lorentzian covariant derivative algebraic curvature tensor vanishes.

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© The London Mathematical Society 2002

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Research partially supported by the NSF (USA) and the MPI (Leipzig).