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2024/105/3-4 (1) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2024.9513 — pp. 259-279

Weakly-Einstein three-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds

Authors: Ali Haji-Badali Orcid.org link for Ali Haji-Badali and Parvane Atashpeykar Orcid.org link for Parvane Atashpeykar

Abstract:

Berger's curvature identity is studied on Lorentzian algebraic curvature models of dimension three, and homogeneous weakly-Einstein spaces are classified. We show that spaces with two-step nilpotent Ricci operators are the only non-Einstein spaces which satisfy all weakly-Einstein conditions simultaneously. Non-homogeneous examples are constructed using Walker structures.

Keywords: algebraic models, curvature identity, Lorentzian $3$-metric, weakly-Einstein conditions, $1$-curvature homogeneous

Mathematics Subject Classification: 58E11, 53C50, 53B30