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Classification of third-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2018-08-21 v1

Abstract

Third-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds, i.e. Lorentzian manifold with zero third derivative of the curvature tensor, are classified. These manifolds are exhausted by a special type of pp-waves, they generalize Cahen-Wallach spaces and second-order symmetric Lorentzian spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1407.3594,
  title  = {Classification of third-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds},
  author = {Anton S. Galaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3594},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1011.3439