Notes on Symmetric Spaces
by Jonathan Holland, Bogdan Ion
Publisher: arXiv 2012
Number of pages: 109
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Contents: Affine connections and transformations; Symmetric spaces; Orthogonal symmetric Lie algebras; Examples; Noncompact symmetric spaces; Compact semisimple Lie groups; Hermitian symmetric spaces; Classification of real simple Lie algebras.
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