Structure of second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds

DOI10.4171/JEMS/368zbMath1288.53069arXiv1101.5503OpenAlexW1980306370MaRDI QIDQ1940823

Miguel Sánchez, José M. M. Senovilla, Oihane F. Blanco

Publication date: 7 March 2013

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5503

zbMATH Keywords

plane wavescurvature conditionsLorentzian symmetric spacesBrinkmann spacesholonomy of Lorentzian manifoldssecond-order symmetric spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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