Isotropic Jacobi fields on compact 3-symmetric spaces
A Jacobi field along a geodesic \(\gamma\) on a homogeneous Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) is called isotropic if it is the restriction to \(\gamma\) of a Killing vector field. It is known that any Jacobi field of a symmetric space which vanishes at two points is isotropic. The author proves that this property characterize symmetric spaces inside the class of 3-symmetric spaces: A compact Riemannian 3-symmetric space is a symmetric space if and only if all Jacobi fields which vanish at two points are isotropic. In the case of 3-symmetric spaces of inner type, the proof is based on some general arguments which use root systems. In the case of 3-symmetric spaces of outer type, the proof consists of explicit construction of a non isotropic Jacobi field for each non symmetric 3-symmetric manifold.
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