A generalization of a theorem on naturally reductive homogeneous spaces
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Abstract:
We prove that a homogeneous Riemannian manifold all of whose geodesics are orbits of one-parameter subgroups of isometries has volume-preserving local geodesic symmetries.References
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- © Copyright 1984 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 91 (1984), 433-435
- MSC: Primary 53C30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1984-0744644-7
- MathSciNet review: 744644