THE LINEAR INDEPENDENCE OF SETS OF TWO AND THREE CANONICAL ALGEBRAIC CURVATURE TENSORS
THE LINEAR INDEPENDENCE OF SETS OF TWO AND THREE CANONICAL ALGEBRAIC CURVATURE TENSORS
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两个和三个正则代数曲率张量集的线性独立性
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2010
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C. Dunn
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A. Díaz;C. Dunn
We generalize the construction of canonical algebraic curvature tensors by self- adjoint endomorphisms of a vector space to arbitrary endomorphisms. Provided certain basic rank requirements are met, we establish a converse of the classical fact that if A is symmetric, then RA is an algebraic curvature tensor. This allows us to establish a simultaneous diagonalization result in the event that three algebraic curvature tensors are linearly dependent. We use these results to establish necessary and sufficient conditions that a set of two or three algebraic curvature tensors be linearly independent. We present the proofs of these results using elementary methods.