Four-dimensional homogeneous semi-symmetric Lorentzian manifolds
Four-dimensional homogeneous semi-symmetric Lorentzian manifolds
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DOI:
10.1016/j.difgeo.2017.08.009
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2016
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A. Ikemakhen
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Abderazak Benroumane;M. Boucetta;A. Ikemakhen
A pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g) is said to be semi-symmetric if its curvature tensor K satisfies K. K= 0. This is equivalent to (1)[K (X, Y), K (Z, T)]= K (K (X, Y) Z, T)+ K (Z, K (X, Y) T), for any vector fields X, Y, Z, T. Semi-symmetric pseudo-Riemannian manifolds generalize obviously locally symmetric manifolds (∇ K= 0). They also generalize second-order locally symmetric manifolds (∇ 2 K= 0 and∇ K≠ 0). Semi-symmetric Riemannian manifolds have been first investigated by E. Cartan [7] and the first example of a semi-symmetric not locally symmetric Riemannian manifold was given by Takagi [13]. More recently, Szabo [11],[12] gave a complete description of these manifolds. In this study, Szabo used strong results proper to the Riemannian sitting which suggests that a similar study of semi-symmetric Lorentzian manifolds is far more difficult. To our knowledge, there are only few results on three dimensional locally homogeneous semi-symmetric Lorentzian manifolds [3],[4] and second-order locally symmetric Lorentzian manifolds have been classified by D. Alekseevsky and A. Galaev in [1]. While in the Riemannian case every homogeneous semi-symmetric manifold is actually locally symmetric, in the Lorentzian case they are homogeneous semi-symmetric Lorentzian manifolds which are not locally symmetric.This paper is devoted to the study of semi-symmetric curvature algebraic tensors on a Lorentzian vector space and to the classification of 4-dimensional simply-connected semi-symmetric homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds. There are our main results: