Compact Osserman manifolds with neutral metric (Q545513)

It is known that the \(4\)-dimensional Osserman Riemann metrics are locally real or complex space forms and Lorentzian Osserman metrics are necessarily of constant curvature. On the other hand, considerable work is available on Osserman metrics with neutral signature \((- - + +)\), especially in relation to Jordan-Osserman manifolds. A manifold \(M\) is Jordan-Osserman if the Jordan normal form of the Jacobi operators is constant on the pseudo-sphere \(S^{\pm}(TM)\). In this paper, the authors prove that a compact simply connected \(4\)-dimensional Jordan-Osserman manifold with metric of neutral signature is either of constant sectional curvature or Ricci flat.