On generalized robertson-walker spacetimes satisfying some curvature condition

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for warped product manifolds (M, g), of dimension >= 4, with 1-dimensional base, and in particular, for generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes, to satisfy some generalized Einstein metric condition. Namely, the difference tensor R.C-C.R, formed from the curvature tensor R and the Weyl conformal curvature tensor C, is expressed by the Tachibana tensor Q(S,R) formed from the Ricci tensor S and R. We also construct suitable examples of such manifolds. They are quasi-Einstein, i.e. at every point of M rank (S - alpha g) <= 1, for some alpha is an element of R, or non-quasi-Einstein.