Harmonic curvatures in Lorentzian space.
Let (M = G/H;g)denote a four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian generalized symmetric space and g = m + h the corresponding decomposition of the Lie algebra g of G. We completely determine the harmonicity properties of vector fields belonging to m. In some cases, all these vector fields are critical points for the energy functional restricted to vector fields. Vector fields defining harmonic maps are also classified, and the energy of these vector fields is explicitly calculated.
For each simple symplectic triple system over the real numbers, the standard enveloping Lie algebra and the algebra of inner derivations of the triple provide a reductive pair related to a semi-Riemannian homogeneous manifold. It is proved that this is an Einstein manifold.
We investigate hypersurfaces M in semi-Riemannian spaces of constant curvature satisfying some Ricci-type equations and for which the tensor H³ is a linear combination of the tensor H², the second fundamental tensor H of M and the metric tensor g of M.