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April 2015 Maximal tori of extrinsic symmetric spaces and meridians
Jost-Hinrich Eschenburg, Peter Quast, Makiko Sumi Tanaka
Osaka J. Math. 52(2): 299-307 (April 2015).

Abstract

We give a different proof of a theorem of O. Loos [5] which characterizes maximal tori of extrinsically symmetric spaces. On the way we show some facts on certain symmetric subspaces, so called meridians, which previously have been known only using classification.

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Jost-Hinrich Eschenburg. Peter Quast. Makiko Sumi Tanaka. "Maximal tori of extrinsic symmetric spaces and meridians." Osaka J. Math. 52 (2) 299 - 307, April 2015.

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Published: April 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 24 March 2015

zbMATH: 1323.53059
MathSciNet: MR3326613

Subjects:
Primary: 53C35
Secondary: 53C40

Rights: Copyright © 2015 Osaka University and Osaka City University, Departments of Mathematics

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