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Lorentzian manifolds close to Euclidean space
V. N. Berestovskiiab a Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
b Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract:
We study the Lorentzian manifolds $M_1$, $M_2$, $M_3$, and $M_4$ obtained by small changes of the standard Euclidean metric on $\mathbb{R}^4$ with the punctured origin $O$. The spaces $M_1$ and $M_4$ are closed isotropic space-time models. The manifolds $M_3$ and $M_4$ (respectively, $M_1$ and $M_2$) are geodesically (non)complete; $M_1$ and $M_4$ are globally hyperbolic, while $M_2$ and $M_3$ are not chronological. We found the Lie algebras of isometry and homothety groups for all manifolds; the curvature, Ricci, Einstein, Weyl, and energy-momentum tensors. It is proved that $M_1$ and $M_4$ are conformally flat, while $M_2$ and $M_3$ are not conformally flat and their Weyl tensor has the first Petrov type.
Keywords:
closed isotropic model, density, Einstein tensor, energy-momentum tensor, homothety group, isometry group, pressure, Weyl tensor.
Received: 21.08.2018 Revised: 17.12.2018 Accepted: 19.12.2018
Citation:
V. N. Berestovskii, “Lorentzian manifolds close to Euclidean space”, Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 60:2 (2019), 306–322; Siberian Math. J., 60:2 (2019), 235–248
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