Neutral Einstein metrics in four dimensions

DOI10.1063/1.529048zbMath0749.53043OpenAlexW2764432012MaRDI QIDQ3987400

Peter R. Law

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.529048

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristicEinstein manifoldcurvature endomorphismHirzebruch signatureThorpe-Hitchin inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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ON THE ALGEBRAIC CLASSIFICATION OF PSEUDO-RIEMANNIAN SPACES ⋮ The classification of the Weyl conformal tensor in 4-dimensional manifolds of neutral signature ⋮ Almost Kähler Walker 4-manifolds ⋮ A generalization of the Goldberg-Sachs theorem and its consequences ⋮ Nonlinear gravitons, null geodesics, and holomorphic disks ⋮ Almost Kähler-Einstein structures on 8-dimensional Walker manifolds ⋮ The causal topology of neutral 4-manifolds with null boundary ⋮ Almost paracomplex structures on 4-manifolds ⋮ Ricci flat 4-metrics with bidimensional null orbits ⋮ Weyl tensor classification in four-dimensional manifolds of all signatures ⋮ The generalized Gauss–Bonnet–Chern theorem ⋮ A spinor approach to Walker geometry ⋮ On compact manifolds admitting indefinite metrics with parallel Weyl tensor ⋮ Compact Osserman manifolds with neutral metric ⋮ Spin coefficients for four-dimensional neutral metrics, and null geometry ⋮ Classification of the Weyl curvature spinors of neutral metrics in four dimensions ⋮ Neutral structures on even-dimensional manifolds ⋮ Some comparisons of the Weyl conformal tensor and its classification in 4-dimensional Lorentz, neutral or positive definite signatures

Cites Work

• An ultra-hyperbolic analogue of the Robinson-Kerr theorem
• Thorpe–Hitchin inequality for compact Einstein 4-manifolds of metric signature (++−−) and the generalized Hirzebruch index formula
• On Euler characteristics of compact Einstein 4-manifolds of metric signature (++−−)
• Curvature and the Petrov Canonical Forms

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