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Keywords:
Riemannian manifold; naturally reductive Riemannian homogeneous space; D’Atri space; flag manifold
Summary:
In this note we study the Ledger conditions on the families of flag manifold $(M^{6}=SU(3)/SU(1)\times SU(1) \times SU(1), g_{(c_1,c_2,c_3)})$, $\big (M^{12}=Sp(3)/SU(2) \times SU(2) \times SU(2), g_{(c_1,c_2,c_3)}\big )$, constructed by N. R. Wallach in (Wallach, N. R., Compact homogeneous Riemannian manifols with strictly positive curvature, Ann. of Math. 96 (1972), 276–293.). In both cases, we conclude that every member of the both families of Riemannian flag manifolds is a D’Atri space if and only if it is naturally reductive. Therefore, we finish the study of $M^6$ made by D’Atri and Nickerson in (D’Atri, J. E., Nickerson, H. K., Geodesic symmetries in spaces with special curvature tensors, J. Differenatial Geom. 9 (1974), 251–262.). Moreover, we correct and improve the result given by the author and A. M. Naveira in (Arias-Marco, T., Naveira, A. M., A note on a family of reductive Riemannian homogeneous spaces whose geodesic symmetries fail to be divergence-preserving, Proceedings of the XI Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics. Publicaciones de la RSME 6 (2004), 35–45.) about $M^{12}$.
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