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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144595103321

Autore

García-Río Eduardo

Titolo

Osserman Manifolds in Semi-Riemannian Geometry / / by Eduardo Garcia-Rio, Demir N. Kupeli, Ramon Vazquez-Lorenzo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002

ISBN

3-540-45629-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2002.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 170 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 1617-9692 ; ; 1777

Disciplina

516.3/73

Soggetti

Geometry, Differential

Mathematical physics

Differential Geometry

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Osserman Conditions in Semi-Riemannian Geometry -- The Osserman Conjecture in Riemannian Geometry -- Lorentzian Osserman Manifolds -- Four-Dimensional Semi-Riemannian Osserman Manifolds with Metric Tensors of Signature (2,2) -- Semi-Riemannian Osserman Manifolds -- Generalizations and Osserman-Related Conditions.

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of this book is Osserman semi-Riemannian manifolds, and in particular, the Osserman conjecture in semi-Riemannian geometry. The treatment is pitched at the intermediate graduate level and requires some intermediate knowledge of differential geometry. The notation is mostly coordinate-free and the terminology is that of modern differential geometry. Known results toward the complete proof of Riemannian Osserman conjecture are given and the Osserman conjecture in Lorentzian geometry is proved completely. Counterexamples to the Osserman conjuncture in generic semi-Riemannian signature are provided and properties of semi-Riemannian Osserman manifolds are investigated.