Completeness, Ricci blowup, the Osserman and the conformal Osserman condition for Walker signature (2,2) manifolds

2006/11/09 by M. Brozos-Vazquez, Brozos-Vazquez, M., P. Gilkey +5
Mathematics · #53C20 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #math.DG #msc:53C20

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0611279

arxiv created 2006/11/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Walker manifolds of signature (2,2) have been used to provide examples of Osserman and of conformal Osserman manifolds of signature (2,2). We study questions of geodesic completeness and Ricci blowup in this context.

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