Curvature properties of φ-null Osserman Lorentzian S-manifolds

Abstract

AbstractWe expound some results about the relationships between the Jacobi operators with respect to null vectors on a Lorentzian S-manifold and the Jacobi operators with respect to particular spacelike unit vectors. We study the number of the eigenvalues of such operators on Lorentzian S-manifolds satisfying the φ-null Osserman condition, under suitable assumptions on the dimension of the manifold. Then, we provide in full generality a new curvature characterization for Lorentzian S-manifolds and we use it to obtain an algebraic decomposition for the Riemannian curvature tensor of φ-null Osserman Lorentzian S-manifolds.