Locally symmetric Riemannian manifold

ID: locally-symmetric-riemannian-manifold

A Riemannian manifold is locally symmetric when its Riemann curvature tensor is parallel for the Levi-Civita connection. Along a geodesic, parallel transport then conjugates the Jacobi curvature operator at the initial point to the operator at every later point. Thus its eigenvalues stay constant. The condition is local and does not assert that global point reflections extend to isometries of the whole manifold.

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