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The geometry and structure of isotropy irreducible homogeneous spaces

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To Albert M. Wolf on his sixtieth birthday

Research partially supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and by National Science Foundation Grant GP-5798. A major part of this research was done at the Institute de Pesquisas Matemáticas, Universidade de São Paulo.

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Wolf, J.A. The geometry and structure of isotropy irreducible homogeneous spaces. Acta Math. 120, 59–148 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02394607

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