Spheres in Hermitian Symmetric Spaces and Flag Manifolds

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-276

  Sánchez, Cristián U ^a   Calí, Ana L ^b   Moreschi, José L ^b,c  

^a Universidad de Córdoba   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^c U N San Luis   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Flag manifold; Hermitian symmetric space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000812871     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004913505961     Document Type: Article

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