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Visibility, horocycles, and the Bruhat decomposition

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Im Hof, HC. (1981). Visibility, horocycles, and the Bruhat decomposition. In: Ferus, D., Kühnel, W., Simon, U., Wegner, B. (eds) Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 838. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0088852

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