Second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds II: structure and global properties
Differential Geometry
2015-03-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We give a summary of recent results on the explicit local form of the second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds in arbitrary dimension, and its global version. These spacetimes turn out to be essentially a specific subclass of plane waves.
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@article{arxiv.1101.3438,
title = {Second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds II: structure and global properties},
author = {O F Blanco and M Sánchez and J M M Senovilla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.3438},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, jpconf.cls, to appear in Proceedings of Spanish Relativity Meeting 2010 (ERE 10), Granada