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Nongeneric null vectors (English)
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13 March 1994
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This is a sequel to [ibid., 939-962 (1993) see the preceding review] by the same authors. Here they are studying the genericity condition in general relativity for null vectors at a given point \(p\) of a Lorentz manifold. They show that at \(p\) the curvature tensor must be of the form \(R(X,Y)Z = c(g(Z,X)Y - g(Z,Y)X)\) if in the space of null vectors at \(p\) there exists an open set of non-generic null-vectors. In dimension 4 they can infer this form of the curvature tensor from the existence of 11 `generically situated' null vectors which are non-generic.
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genericity condition
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null vectors
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Lorentz manifold
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curvature tensor
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