Degenerations of Lie algebras and geometry of Lie groups

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-194

  Lauret, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Closed orbits; Degenerations; Left invariant Riemannian metrics; Lie algebras; Variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037365232     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-2245(02)00146-8     Document Type: Article

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