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Higher order Jordan Osserman Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
We study the higher order Jacobi operator in pseudo-Riemannian geometry. We
exhibit a family of manifolds so that this operator has constant Jordan normal
form on the Grassmannian of subspaces of signature (r,s) for certain values of
(r,s). These pseudo-Riemannian manifolds are new and non-trivial examples of
higher order Osserman manifolds
Affine curvature homogeneous 3-dimensional Lorentz Manifolds
We study a family of 3-dimensional Lorentz manifolds. Some members of the
family are 0-curvature homogeneous, 1-affine curvature homogeneous, but not
1-curvature homogeneous. Some are 1-curvature homogeneous but not 2-curvature
homogeneous. All are 0-modeled on indecomposible local symmetric spaces. Some
of the members of the family are geodesically complete, others are not. All
have vanishing scalar invariants
The Jordan normal form of higher order Osserman algebraic curvature tensors
We construct new examples of algebraic curvature tensors so that the Jordan
normal form of the higher order Jacobi operator is constant on the Grassmannian
of subspaces of type in a vector space of signature . We then
use these examples to establish some results concerning higher order Osserman
and higher order Jordan Osserman algebraic curvature tensors
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