A note on the Osserman conjecture and isotropic covariant derivative of curvature

Let be a Riemannian manifold with the Jacobi operator, which has constant eigenvalues, independent on the unit vector and the point . Osserman conjectured that these manifolds are flat or rank-one locally symmetric spaces (). It is known that for a general pseudo-Riemannian manifold, the Osserman-type conjecture is not true and 4-dimensional Kleinian Jordan-Osserman manifolds are curvature homogeneous. We show that the length of the first covariant derivative of the curvature tensor is isotropic, i.e. . For known examples of 4-dimensional Osserman manifolds of signature we check also that . By the presentation of a class of examples we show that curvature homogeneity and do not imply local homogeneity; in contrast to the situation in the Riemannian geometry, where it is unknown if the Osserman condition implies local homogeneity.