Holonomy restrictions from the curvature operator of the second kind (Q6044456)

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.