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Nonsymmetric Osserman pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Author(s): E. García-Río; M. E. Vázquez-Abal; R. Vázquez-Lorenzo
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 2771-2778.
MSC (1991): Primary 53B30, 53C50
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Abstract: Examples of Osserman pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with metric of any signature $(p,q)$, $p$, $q$ $>1$ which are not locally symmetric are exhibited.


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Additional Information:

E. García-Río
Affiliation: Departamento de Análise Matemática, Facultade de Matemáticas, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Email: eduardo@zmat.usc.es

M. E. Vázquez-Abal
Affiliation: Departamento de Xeometría e Topoloxía, Facultade de Matemáticas, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Email: meva@zmat.usc.es

R. Vázquez-Lorenzo
Affiliation: Facultade de Matemáticas, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04666-8
PII: S 0002-9939(98)04666-8
Keywords: Jacobi operator, Osserman space, pseudo--Riemannian metric
Received by editor(s): January 30, 1997
Additional Notes: Supported by projects DGICYT PB940633C0201 and XUGA 20702B96, Spain.
Communicated by: Christopher Croke
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society


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