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A Riemannian manifold is called Osserman (conformally Osserman, respectively), if the eigenvalues of the Jacobi operator of its curvature tensor (Weyl tensor, respectively) are constant on the unit tangent sphere at every point. The Osserman Conjecture asserts that any Osserman manifold is either flat or rank-one symmetric. We prove that both the Osserman Conjecture and its conformal version, the Conformal Osserman Conjecture, are true, modulo a certain assumption on algebraic curvature tensors in \({\mathbb {R}^{16}}\). As a consequence, we show that a Riemannian manifold having the same Weyl tensor as a rank-one symmetric space is conformally equivalent to it.
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Nikolayevsky, Y. Conformally Osserman manifolds of dimension 16 and a Weyl–Schouten theorem for rank-one symmetric spaces. Annali di Matematica 191, 677–709 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-011-0201-6
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