Holonomy restrictions from the curvature operator of the second kind (Q6044456): Difference between revisions

The holonomy groups of Riemannian manifolds can be used for the classification of symmetric spaces. The curvature operator determines the holonomy algebra. The authors consider \(n\)-dimensional, not necessarily complete, Riemannian manifolds \((M,g)\). They prove that if the curvature operator of the second kind is \(n\)-nonnegative or \(n\)-nonpositive, then the restricted holonomy of the manifold \((M,g)\) is \(\mathrm{SO}(n)\) or \((M,g)\) is flat. In particular, if the manifold \((M,g)\) is a locally symmetric space, then it has constant curvature.