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Minimal sphere bundles in Euclidean spheres

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The purpose of this paper is to pursue to work initiated by Hsiang-Lawson and study cohomogeneity 1 minimal hypersurfaces in Euclidean spheres which are equivariant under the linear isotropy representation of a rank 3 compact symmetric space.

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Gorodski, C. Minimal sphere bundles in Euclidean spheres. Geom Dedicata 53, 75–102 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01264046

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