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Keywords:
Riemannian manifolds; curvature tensor; curvature homogeneous spaces
Summary:
A six-parameter family is constructed of (algebraic) Riemannian curvature tensors in dimension four which do not belong to any curvature homogeneous space. Also a general method is given for a possible extension of this result.
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