Screen bundles of Lorentzian manifolds and some generalisations of \(pp\)-waves (Q2507664): Difference between revisions

The paper studies Lorentzian manifolds \((M,g)\) which admit a recurrent light-like vector field \(X\). If Riem\((U,V)\) maps \(RX\) into \((RX)^\perp\) for all vectors \(U,V\) then \((M,g)\) is called a \(pr\)-wave spacetime. Here Riem denotes the Riemann curvature tensor. If Riem\( (U,V)\) maps \((RX)^\perp\) into \(RX\) then \((M,g)\) is said to have light-like hypersurface curvature. Both the new types generalize the well-known \(pp\)-wave spacetimes. The author derives alternative characterizations by holonomy properties and in terms of adapted coordinates.