Geodesic Ricci-symmetric pseudo-Riemannian spaces

Abstract

We introduced special pseudo-Riemannian spaces, called geodesic A-symmetric spaces, into consideration. It is proven that there are no geodesic symmetric spaces and no geodesic Ricci symmetric spaces, which differ from spaces of constant curvature and Einstein spaces respectively. The research is carried out locally, by tensor methods, without any limitations imposed on a metric and a sign.

Keywords

• pseudo-riemannian spaces
• geodesic ricci-symmetric spaces
• geodesic mappings