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Research supported by the “Sonderforschungsbereich Theoretische Mathematik (SFB 40)” at the University of Bonn

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Ziller, W. The free loop space of globally symmetric spaces. Invent Math 41, 1–22 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01390161

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