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Pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces

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M. Cahen and M. Parker

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1980; Volume 24, Number 229
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2229-6 (print); 978-1-4704-0633-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0229
MathSciNet review: 556610
MSC: Primary 53C35; Secondary 17B10

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Introduction
  • I. Pseudo-Riemannian and pseudo-Hermitian symmetric spaces
  • II. Weakly irreducible spaces on which the action of the holonomy group is neither semi-simple nor nilpotent
  • III. Structure of the spaces admitting a maximal parallel foliation with zero curvature
  • IV. Structure of the $\mathcal {S}$-module $Y$
  • V. Construction of the admissible $\mathcal {S}$-modules $y_\alpha$
  • VI. Some examples of non minimal multiplication
  • VII. Classification of the indecomposable PRST of dimension lower than 8