Invariant <Emphasis Type="Italic">f</Emphasis>-structures on naturally reductive homogeneous spaces

We study invariant metric f-structures on naturally reductive homogeneous spaces and establish their relation to generalized Hermitian geometry. We prove a series of criteria characterizing geometric and algebraic properties of important classes of metric f-structures: nearly Kähler, Hermitian, Kähler, and Killing structures. It is shown that canonical f-structures on homogeneous Φ-spaces of order k (homogeneous k-symmetric spaces) play remarkable part in this line of investigation. In particular, we present the final results concerning canonical f-structures on naturally reductive homogeneous Φ-spaces of order 4 and 5.