The global geometry of Riemannian manifolds with commuting curvature operators (Q998024)

The authors study manifolds whose Riemannian curvature operators commute. These manifolds have global geometric phenomena quite different for higher signature manifolds than they are for Riemannian manifolds. The paper consists of 6 sections. The first one is Introduction. In Section 2 they give a complete classification of Riemannian skew Tsankov algebraic curvature tensors. In Section 3 the authors present a family of irreducible 3-dimensional Riemannian skew Tsankov manifolds. In Section 4 they investigate a family of irreducible 4-dimensional Riemannian skew Tsankov manifolds. Sections 5 and 6 contain other examples of skew Tsankov manifolds which are all geodesically complete.