Concircular curvature on warped product manifolds and applications (Q2006676)

On a (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold \(M\), there is a concircular curvature tensor which is invariant under concircular transformations. The manifold is called concircularly flat if its concircular curvature tensor vanishes at every point. A concircularly flat manifold \(M\) is of constant curvature. In this sense, the concircular curvature measures the deviation of \(M\) from constant curvature. In the paper under review, the authors study the concircular curvature tensor on warped product manifolds. In particular, they study divergence-free concircular curvature tensor on these manifolds. They obtain applications to two different \(n\)-dimensional spacetimes, namely, generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes and standard static spacetimes.