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Polar actions on compact rank one symmetric spaces are taut

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We prove that the orbits of a polar action of a compact Lie group on a compact rank one symmetric space are tautly embedded with respect to Z 2-coefficients.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy

    Leonardo Biliotti

  2. Instituto de Matemática e Estatí stica, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 1010, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil

    Claudio Gorodski

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The second author was supported in part by FAPESP and CNPq.

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Biliotti, L., Gorodski, C. Polar actions on compact rank one symmetric spaces are taut. Math. Z. 255, 335–342 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-006-0027-x

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