Algebraic curvature tensors whose skew-symmetric curvature operator has constant rank 2

نویسندگان

  • Peter Gilkey
  • Tan Zhang
چکیده

Let R be an algebraic curvature tensor for a non-degenerate inner product of signature (p, q) where q ≥ 5. If π is a spacelike 2 plane, let R(π) be the associated skewsymmetric curvature operator. We classify the algebraic curvature tensors so R(·) has constant rank 2 and show these are geometrically realizable by hypersurfaces in flat spaces. We also classify the Ivanov-Petrova algebraic curvature tensors of rank 2; these are the algebraic curvature tensors of constant rank 2 such that the complex Jordan normal form of R(·) is constant. §

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Periodica Mathematica Hungarica

دوره 44  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002