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Curvature properties of $\phi$-null Osserman Lorentzian $\mathcal{S}$-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2013-10-31 v2

Abstract

We expound some results about the relationships between the Jacobi operators with respect to null vectors on a Lorentzian S\mathcal{S}-manifold MM and the Jacobi operators with respect to particular spacelike unit vectors on MM. We study the number of the eigenvalues of such operators in a ϕ\phi-null Osserman Lorentzian S\mathcal{S}-manifold, under suitable assumptions on the dimension of the manifold. Then, we generalize a curvature characterization, previously obtained by the first author for Lorentzian ϕ\phi-null Osserman S\mathcal{S}-manifolds with exactly two characteristic vector fields, to the case of those with an arbitrary number of characteristic vector fields.

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@article{arxiv.1112.1050,
  title  = {Curvature properties of $\phi$-null Osserman Lorentzian $\mathcal{S}$-manifolds},
  author = {Letizia Brunetti and Angelo V. Caldarella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.1050},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

15 pages; signs corrected on page 8, reference added