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The main purpose of the following article is to introduce a Lie theoretical approach to the problem of classifying pseudo quaternionic-Kähler (QK) reductions of the pseudo QK symmetric spaces, otherwise called generalized Wolf spaces.
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Grandini, D. Quaternionic Kähler reductions of Wolf spaces. Ann Glob Anal Geom 32, 225–252 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-006-9056-2
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