A new family of curvature homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds (Q734577)

Let \((M,g)\) be a smooth pseudo-Riemannian manifold of signature \((p,q)\). If \(R\) is the Riemann curvature tensor, then the Levi-Civita connection \(\nabla\) defines for each \(i=0,1,2,\dots\) the tensors \(\nabla^ iR\) with \(\nabla^ 0R=R\). \((M,g)\) is \(r\)-curvature homogeneous if, for all points \(p,q\in M\), there exists an isomorphism \(\Phi_{pq}: T_ pM\to T_ qM\) so that \(\Phi^*_{pq}g_{_ q}=g_{_ p}\) and \(\Phi^*_{pq}\nabla^ iR_{_ q}=\nabla^ iR_{_ p}\). In this paper, the authors construct a new family of curvature homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds modeled on \(\mathbb R^{3k+2}\) whose signatures may be chosen from \(\{(k+1+a,k+1+b);\;a,b\in\mathbb N\cup \{0\} \wedge a+b=k\}\). They study the structure group of the \(0\)-model of this family and show that it is indecomposable. Also, they found some invariants that are not of Weyl type which proves that the members of this family are not locally homogeneous.