Geodesic spheres and two-point homogeneous spaces (Q1912797)

In the Osserman conjecture and in the isoparametric conjecture, it is stated that two-point homogeneous spaces may be characterized via the constancy of the eigenvalues of the Jacobi operator (Osserman conjecture) or by the shape operator (isoparametric conjecture). These conjectures remain open. In this paper, the authors give complete positive results for similar statements about other symmetric endomorphism fields on small geodesic spheres. They also derive more characteristic properties for this class of spaces by using other properties of small geodesic spheres. They study Riemannian manifolds with (curvature) homogeneous geodesic spheres.