A note on Ricci signatures

A note on Ricci signatures
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 273-278 Request permission

We show that only two types of Ricci signatures cannot be realized by any left-invariant metric on 4-dimensional Lie groups.

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