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Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces I

Differential Geometry 2008-10-06 v2

Abstract

We find a one-to-one correspondence between full extrinsic symmetric spaces in (possibly degenerate) inner product spaces and certain algebraic objects called (weak) extrinsic symmetric triples. In particular, this yields a description of arbitrary extrinsic symmetric spaces in pseudo-Euclidean spaces by corresponding infinitesimal objects.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4713,
  title  = {Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces I},
  author = {Ines Kath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4713},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

22 pages, v2 with corrections to Prop. 6.2

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