Some properties of four-dimensional Walker manifolds

Year 2017, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 253 - 261, 01.07.2017

Abdoul Salam Diallo , Fortune Massamba

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate geometric properties of some curvature tensors of a four-dimensional Walker manifold. Some characterization theorems are also obtained.

Keywords

Einstein metric, locally symmetry, locally conformally flat, Walker metrics

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