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Extended Derdziński-Shen theorem for curvature tensors

Carlo Alberto Mantica, Luca Guido Molinari (2012)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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We extend a remarkable theorem of Derdziński and Shen, on the restrictions imposed on the Riemann tensor by the existence of a nontrivial Codazzi tensor. We show that the Codazzi equation can be replaced by a more general algebraic condition. The resulting extension applies both to the Riemann tensor and to generalized curvature tensors.

The conformal change of the metric of an almost Hermitian manifold applied to the antiholomorphic curvature tensor

Mileva Prvanović (2013)

Communications in Mathematics

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By using the technique of decomposition of a Hermitian vector space under the action of a unitary group, Ganchev [2] obtained a tensor which he named the Weyl component of the antiholomorphic curvature tensor. We show that the same tensor can be obtained by direct application of the conformal change of the metric to the antiholomorphic curvature tensor. Also, we find some other conformally curvature tensors and examine some relations between them.

The spectral geometry of the Weyl conformal tensor

N. Blažić, P. Gilkey, S. Nikčević, U. Simon (2005)

Banach Center Publications

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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 manifolds which generalize the Osserman conjecture to this setting. We also study similar questions related to the skew-symmetric curvature operator defined by the Weyl conformal curvature tensor.