Semisymmetry and Ricci-semisymmetry for hypersurfaces of semi-Riemannian space forms

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Authors Filip Defever, Ryszard Deszcz, Dorota Kowalczyk, Leopold Verstraelen

Publication date 23 January 2002

Published in Arab Journal of Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

hypersurfaceRicci curvature tensorRicci semisymmetryRiemann curvature tensorsemi-Riemannian manifoldsemisymmetryWeyl curvature tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

Review text

Let \((M, g)\) be a semi-Riemannian manifold. \(M\) is called semisymmetric if some natural product of its Riemann curvature tensor with itself is zero, and Ricci-semisymmetric if a natural product of its Riemann curvature tensor with its Ricci curvature tensor vanishes. This paper deals with a conjecture of P. J. Ryan, according to which the two notions are equivalent for a hypersurface of Euclidean \(n\)-space. The authors note that this conjecture is false, as was recently proved by one of them; it is however known to be true in a number of special cases. In this paper, they prove that it is true for hypersurfaces of semi-Riemannian space-forms for which a natural product of the Weyl curvature tensor with the Riemann tensor is zero. This result is achieved through elaborate algebraic computations on the curvature tensors of hypersurfaces.

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