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In this paper we study the minimal norm tensors for general third covariant tensors and fourth covariant tensors, using this we can give a new explanation of Weyl tensor and Cotten tensor: Weyl tensor is the minimal norm tensor of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Zhen Guo , ShanLin Guan

We describe the structure of the Ricci tensor on a locally homogeneous Lorentzian gradient Ricci soliton. In the non-steady case, we show the soliton is rigid in dimensions three and four. In the steady case, we give a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-11 M. Brozos-Vázquez , E. García-Río , P. Gilkey , S. Gavino-Fernández

In all dimensions and arbitrary signature, we demonstrate the existence of a new local potential -- a double (2,3)-form -- for the Weyl curvature tensor, and more generally for all tensors with the symmetry properties of the Weyl curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 S. Brian Edgar , José M. M. Senovilla

The algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor in arbitrary dimension n is recovered by means of the principal directions of its "superenergy" tensor. This point of view can be helpful in order to compute the Weyl aligned null directions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-13 José M. M. Senovilla

We review recent developments and applications of the classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian geometries. First, we discuss the general setup, i.e. main definitions and methods for the classification, some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-17 Marcello Ortaggio , Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova

Weyl's conformal theory of gravity is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity which associates metrics with 1-forms . In the case of locally integrable (closed non-exact) 1-forms the spacetime manifolds are no more simply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Michel Duneau

We study the geometrical properties of null congruences generated by an aligned null direction of the Weyl tensor (WAND) in spacetimes of the Weyl and Ricci type N (possibly with a non-vanishing cosmological constant) in an arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Martin Kuchynka , Alena Pravdova

The peeling behaviour of the Weyl tensor near null infinity is determined for an asymptotically flat higher dimensional spacetime. The result is qualitatively different from the peeling property in 4d. To leading order, the Weyl tensor is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Mahdi Godazgar , Harvey S. Reall

The classical Bach tensor in four dimensions can be expressed as a linear combination of two independent, symmetric, divergence-free, quadratic-in-curvature tensors U and V. Several classification results for gradient-shrinking Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-03 James Siene

We prove that any $n$--dimensional complete gradient Ricci soliton with pinched Weyl curvature is a finite quotient of $\RR^{n}$, $\RR \times \SS^{n-1}$ or $\SS^{n}$. In particular, we do not need to assume the metric to be locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Giovanni Catino

We study when the Jacobi operator associated to the Weyl conformal curvature tensor has constant eigenvalues on the bundle of unit spacelike or timelike tangent vectors. This leads to questions in the conformal geometry of pseudo-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Blazic , P. Gilkey , S. Nikcevic , U. Simon

The algebraic study of the Bel-Robinson tensor proposed and initiated in a previous work (Gen. Relativ. Gravit. {\bf 41}, see ref [11]) is achieved. The canonical form of the different algebraic types is obtained in terms of Bel-Robinson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-13 Joan J. Ferrando , Juan A. Sáez

We establish two surprising types of Weyl's laws for some compact $\mathrm{RCD}(K, N)$/Ricci limit spaces. The first type could have power growth of any order (bigger than one). The other one has an order corrected by logarithm similar to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Xianzhe Dai , Shouhei Honda , Jiayin Pan , Guofang Wei

We present a simple, systematic and practical method to construct conformally invariant equations in arbitrary Riemann spaces. This method that we call "Weyl-to-Riemann" is based on two features of Weyl geometry. i) A Weyl space is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-06 Sofiane Faci

It is well known that the classification of the Weyl tensor in Lorentzian manifolds of dimension four, the so called Petrov classification, was a great tool to the development of general relativity. Using the bivector approach it is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-12 Carlos Batista

It is well known that the curvature tensor of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold can be decomposed with respect to the pseudo-orthogonal group into the sum of the Weyl conformal curvature tensor, the traceless part of the Ricci tensor and of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Anton S. Galaev

A peeling theorem for the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian manifolds is presented. We obtain it by generalizing a proof from the four dimensional case. We derive a generic behavior, discuss interesting subcases and retrieve the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Selim Amar

Spaces with a Weyl-type connection and torsion of a special type induced by the structure of the differentiability conditions in the algebra of complex quaternions are considered. The consistency of these conditions implies the self-duality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-07 Vladimir V. Kassandrov , Joseph A. Rizcallah

We study the evolution of the Weyl curvature invariant in all spatially homogeneous universe models containing a non-tilted gamma-law perfect fluid. We investigate all the Bianchi and Thurston type universe models and calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 John D. Barrow , Sigbjorn Hervik

The usual interpretation of Weyl geometry is modified in two senses. First, both the additive Weyl connection and its variation are treated as (1, 2) tensors under the action of Weyl covariant derivative. Second, a modified covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-18 Fang-Fang Yuan , Yong-Chang Huang