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The jacobi equation on naturally reductive compact Riemannian homogeneous spaces

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  1. The Institute for Advanced Study, 08540, Princeton, New Jersey

    Wolfgang Ziller

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This work was supported by the “Sonderforschungsbereich Theoretische Mathematik (SFB 40)” at the University of Bonn and completed at the Institute for Advanced Study with partial support from a National Science Foundation grant.

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Ziller, W. The jacobi equation on naturally reductive compact Riemannian homogeneous spaces. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 52, 573–590 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02567391

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