The object of the present paper is to study spacetimes admitting pseudo-projective curvature tensor. At first we prove that a pseudo-projectively flat spacetime is Einstein and hence it is of constant curvature and the energy momentum tensor of such a spacetime satisfying Einstein’s field equation with cosmological constant is covariant constant. Next, we prove that if the perfect fluid spacetime with vanishing pseudo-projective curvature tensor obeys Einstein’s field equation without cosmological constant, then the spacetime has constant energy density and isotropic pressure, and the perfect fluid always behaves as a cosmological constant and also such a spacetime is infinitesimally spatially isotropic relative to the unit timelike vector field U. Moreover, it is shown that a pseudo-projectively flat spacetime satisfying Einstein’s equation without cosmological constant for a purely electromagnetic distribution is an Euclidean space. We also prove that under certain conditions a perfect fluid spacetime with divergence-free pseudo-projective curvature is a Robertson-Walker spacetime and the possible local cosmological structure of such a spacetime is of type I, D or O. We also study dust-like fluid spacetime with vanishing pseudo-projective curvature tensor.
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