Nonsymmetric Osserman pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

García-Río, E.; Vázquez-Abal, M.; Vázquez-Lorenzo, R.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04666-8

Nonsymmetric Osserman pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
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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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