On the projective geometry of rational homogeneous varieties

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-100

  Landsberg, Joseph M ^a   Manivel, Laurent ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Flag variety; Fundamental forms; Linear spaces; Octonion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037248639     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000140300003     Document Type: Article

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