Related papers: Antipodal sets of exceptional symmetric spaces

We give an explicit classification of maximal antipodal sets in any irreducible compact symmetric space except for spin groups and half spin groups, and some quotient symmetric spaces associated to them.

We prove several long-standing conjectures by Chen--Nagano on cohomological descriptions of the cardinalities of maximal antipodal sets in symmetric spaces. We actually extend these conjectures to the setting of generalised symmetric spaces…

Maximal antipodal sets of Riemannian manifolds were introduced by the author and T. Nagano in [Un invariant g\'eom\'etrique riemannien, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris S\'er. I Math. 295 (1982), no. 5, 389--391]. Since then maximal antipodal sets…

Let $S$ be a set of $2n$ points on a circle such that for each point $p \in S$ also its antipodal (mirrored with respect to the circle center) point $p'$ belongs to $S$. A polygon $P$ of size $n$ is called \emph{antipodal} if it consists of…

We characterize higher rank model geometries -- Riemannian symmetric spaces, Euclidean buildings and products -- among Hadamard spaces by using antipodal sets at infinity.

We classify $R$-spaces that admit a certain natural $\Gamma$-symmetric structure. We further determine the maximal antipodal sets of these structures.

We describe simply connected compact exceptional simple Lie groups in very elementary way. We first construct all simply connected compact exceptional Lie groups G concretely. Next, we find all involutive automorphisms of G, and determine…

Totally symmetric sets are a recently introduced tool for studying homomorphisms between groups. In this paper, we give full classifications of totally symmetric sets in certain families of groups and bound their sizes in others. As a…

It is known that the antipodal set of a Riemannian symmetric space of compact type $G / K$ consists of a union of $K$-orbits. We determine the dimensions of these $K$-orbits of most irreducible symmetric spaces of compact type. The…

We study the maximal rank in affine subspaces of symmetric or alternating matrices, in terms of the matching numbers of certain associated graphs. Applications include simple proofs of upper bounds on the dimension of such subspaces in…

This is an expository paper on the largest size of equilateral sets in finite-dimensional normed spaces.

We determine the polar and the maximal antipodal set $P$ for the outer 3-symmetric space $\mathbb{S}^7 \times \mathbb{S}^7 = \mathrm{Spin}_8/G_2$ where the 3-symmetric structure is given by the triality automorphism $\tau$ on…

We survey the theory of totally symmetric sets, with applications to homomorphisms of symmetric groups, braid groups, linear groups, and mapping class groups.

A totally symmetric set is a subset of a group such that every permutation of the subset can be realized by conjugation in the group. The (non-)existence of large totally symmetric sets obstruct homomorphisms, so bounds on the sizes of…

We define the notion of extrinsic symplectic symmetric spaces and exhibit some of their properties. We construct large families of examples and show how they fit in the perspective of a complete classification of these manifolds. We also…

For any positive integer $k>1$, we classify the antipodal point arrangements on the sphere $S^k$ up to an isomorphism, by associating a finite complete set of cycle invariants.

We revisit the known problem whether each compact topology is contained in a maximal compact topology and collect some partial answers to this question. For instance we show that each compact topology is contained in a compact topology in…

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…

We show that a totally geodesic submanifold of a symmetric space satisfying certain conditions admits an extension to a minimal submanifold of dimension one higher, and we apply this result to construct new examples of complete embedded…

A totally symmetric set is a finite subset of a group for which any permutation of the elements can be realized by conjugation in the ambient group. Such sets are rigid under homomorphisms, and so exert a great deal of control over the…