Codazzi Tensor Fields in Reductive Homogeneous Spaces

Abstract

We extend the results about left-invariant Codazzi tensor fields on Lie groups equipped with left-invariant Riemannian metrics obtained by d’Atri in 1985 to the setting of reductive homogeneous spaces G/H, where the curvature of the canonical connection of second kind associated with the fixed reductive decomposition \(\mathfrak {g} = \mathfrak {h}\oplus \mathfrak {m}\) enters the picture. In particular, we show that invariant Codazzi tensor fields on a naturally reductive homogeneous space are parallel.