On the algebraic classification of pseudo-Riemannian spaces

DOI10.1142/S0219887811005932MaRDI QIDQ2891188zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Sigbjørn Hervik, Alan Coley

Publication date 13 June 2012

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3021

zbMATH Keywords

classification of Weyl tensorspseudo-Riemannian space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We consider arbitrary-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian spaces of signature $(k,k+m)$. We introduce a boost-weight decomposition and define a number of algebraic properties (e.g., the $$- and $$-properties) and present a boost-weight decomposition to classify the Weyl tensors of arbitrary signature and discuss degenerate algebraic types (e.g., VSI spaces). We consider the four dimensional neutral signature space as an illustration.

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