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September 2005 Primitive symmetric spaces
Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace
Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 12(3): 321-328 (September 2005). DOI: 10.36045/bbms/1126195337

Abstract

In this note, we study primitive symmetric spaces, namely discrete symmetric spaces whose main group acts primitively. We give three families of examples of such spaces, and we prove that every primitive symmetric space belongs to one of these families.

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Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace. "Primitive symmetric spaces." Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 12 (3) 321 - 328, September 2005. https://doi.org/10.36045/bbms/1126195337

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Published: September 2005
First available in Project Euclid: 8 September 2005

zbMATH: 1110.20002
MathSciNet: MR2173695
Digital Object Identifier: 10.36045/bbms/1126195337

Subjects:
Primary: 20B15 , 52C99 , 53C35

Keywords: involution , primitive group , simple group , Symmetric space

Rights: Copyright © 2005 The Belgian Mathematical Society

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