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Symmetric spaces and strongly isotropy irreducible spaces

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The first author is partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The second author is partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation

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Wang, M., Ziller, W. Symmetric spaces and strongly isotropy irreducible spaces. Math. Ann. 296, 285–326 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01445107

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