Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)
Recall that a weaker version of homogeneity is local homogeneity: A semi-Riemannian manifold \((M, g)\) is \textit{locally homogeneous} if for each point \(p\in M\) there exists a neighbourhood \(U\) such that the Killing vector fields of \((U, g|_{U})\) span \(T_pM\) when evaluated at \(p\). This paper studies local homogeneity for a certain class of Lorentzian manifolds, namely \textit{pp-waves} and the particular class of \textit{plane waves}. The first main result is the followingNEWLINENEWLINE\textbf{Theorem 1.} Let \((M, g)\) be a pp-wave of arbitrary dimension with parallel null vector field \(V\). Assume that \((M, g)\) is strongly indecomposable and that almost everywhere the rank of its curvature endomorphism acting on \(\Lambda ^2TM\) is larger than one. Then \((M, g)\) is a plane wave if it is locally \(V^{\bot}\)-homogeneous.
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