Spacetimes admitting W2-curvature tensor
16 Apr 2014-International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (World Scientific Publishing Company)-Vol. 11, Iss: 04, pp 1450030
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that a W2-flat spacetime is conformally flat and hence it is of Petrov type O, and if the perfect fluid spacetime with vanishing W 2-curvature tensor obeys Einstein's field equation without cosmological constant, then the spacetime has vanishing acceleration vector and expansion scalar and the ideal fluid always behaves as a cosmologically constant.
Abstract: The object of this paper is to study spacetimes admitting W2-curvature tensor. At first we prove that a W2-flat spacetime is conformally flat and hence it is of Petrov type O. Next, we prove that if the perfect fluid spacetime with vanishing W2-curvature tensor obeys Einstein's field equation without cosmological constant, then the spacetime has vanishing acceleration vector and expansion scalar and the perfect fluid always behaves as a cosmological constant. It is also shown that in a perfect fluid spacetime of constant scalar curvature with divergence-free W2-curvature tensor, the energy-momentum tensor is of Codazzi type and the possible local cosmological structure of such a spacetime is of type I, D or O.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the W2-curvature tensor on warped product manifolds and on generalized Robertson-Walker and standard static space-times has been studied and the geometry of the base and fiber of these warped product space-time models has been investigated.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the W2-curvature tensor on (singly) warped product manifolds as well as on generalized Robertson–Walker and standard static space-times. Some different expressions of the W2-curvature tensor on a warped product manifold in terms of its relation with W2-curvature tensor on the base and fiber manifolds are obtained. Furthermore, we investigate W2-curvature flat warped product manifolds. Many interesting results describing the geometry of the base and fiber manifolds of a W2-curvature flat warped product manifold are derived. Finally, we study the W2-curvature tensor on generalized Robertson–Walker and standard static space-times; we explore the geometry of the fiber of these warped product space-time models that are W2-curvature flat.
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TL;DR: In this article, a necessary and sufficient condition for a spacetime with pseudo symmetric energy-momentum tensor to be a pseudo Ricci symmetric spacetime was given, and several interesting results were obtained.
Abstract: The object of the present paper is to characterize spacetimes with different types of energy–momentum tensor. At first we consider spacetimes with pseudo symmetric energy–momentum tensor T . We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a spacetime with pseudo symmetric energy–momentum tensor to be a pseudo Ricci symmetric spacetime. Next we consider the spacetimes with Codazzi type of energy–momentum tensor and several interesting results are pointed out. Moreover, some results related to perfect fluid spacetimes with different forms of energy–momentum tensors have been obtained. We study spacetimes with quadratic Killing energy–momentum tensor T and show that a GRW spacetime with quadratic Killing energy–momentum tensor is an Einstein space. Finally, we have considered general relativistic spacetimes with semisymmetric energy–momentum tensor and obtained some important results.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new type of curvature tensor called H-curvature tensors of type (1, 3) was introduced, which is a linear combination of conformal and projective curvatures.
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a new type of curvature tensor named H-curvature
tensor of type (1, 3) which is a linear combination of conformal and
projective curvature tensors. First we deduce some basic geometric
properties of H-curvature tensor. It is shown that a H-flat Lorentzian
manifold is an almost product manifold. Then we study pseudo H-symmetric
manifolds (PHS)n (n > 3) which recovers some known structures on Lorentzian
manifolds. Also, we provide several interesting results. Among others, we
prove that if an Einstein (PHS)n is a pseudosymmetric (PS)n, then the scalar
curvature of the manifold vanishes and conversely. Moreover, we deal with
pseudo H-symmetric perfect fluid spacetimes and obtain several interesting
results. Also, we present some results of the spacetime satisfying
divergence free H-curvature tensor. Finally, we construct a non-trivial
Lorentzian metric of (PHS)4.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the P -curvature tensor is introduced and investigated, which generalizes projective, conharmonic, M -projective and the set of W i curvature tensors introduced by Pokhariyal and Mishra.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the properties of flat spacetimes under some conditions regarding the W2-curvature tensor and showed that the energy momentum tensor satisfying the Einstein's equations with a cosmological constant is a quadratic conformal Killing tensor.
Abstract: The object of this paper is to study the properties of flat spacetimes under some conditions regarding the W2-curvature tensor. In the first section, several results are obtained on the geometrical symmetries of this curvature tensor. It is shown that in a spacetime with W2curvature tensor filled with a perfect fluid, the energy momentum tensor satisfying the Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant is a quadratic conformal Killing tensor. It is also proved that a necessary and sufficient condition for the energy momentum tensor to be a quadratic Killing tensor is that the scalar curvature of this space must be constant. In a radiative perfect fluid, it is shown that the sectional curvature is constant. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C15; 53C25; 53B15; 53B20
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