Examples of curvature homogeneous Lorentz metrics (Q4340984)

The main result of the paper is the following: there exists a 3-dimensional Lorentzian manifold which is curvature homogeneous up to order 1, i.e., for every two points there is a linear isomorphism between the corresponding tangent spaces preserving the scalar product, the Riemannian curvature tensor and its first covariant derivative and which is still not locally homogeneous. This is an a contrast with the Riemannian situation where such example is not known and does not exist for dimensions less than five. Further, the authors mention an example by \textit{A. Koutras} and \textit{C. McIntosh} [ibid. 13, L47--L49 (1996; Zbl 0851.53063)] of a nonflat Lorentzian manifold for which all scalar curvature invariants vanish. As a contrast, \textit{F. Prüfer}, \textit{F. Tricerri} and \textit{L. Vanhecke} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 348, 4643-4652 (1996; Zbl 0867.53032)] have proved that, in a Riemannian manifold, if all scalar curvature invariants up to order \(n(n+2)/2\) are constants, then the space is locally homogeneous. The example by Koutras and McIntosh is not locally homogeneous!