Rigidity of Rank-One Factors of Compact Symmetric Spaces

Andrew Clarke[1]

  • [1] Université de Nantes Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray 2, rue de la Houssinière - BP 92208 44322 Nantes Cedex 3 (France)

Annales de l’institut Fourier (2011)

  • Volume: 61, Issue: 2, page 491-509
  • ISSN: 0373-0956

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We consider the decomposition of a compact-type symmetric space into a product of factors and show that the rank-one factors, when considered as totally geodesic submanifolds of the space, are isolated from inequivalent minimal submanifolds.

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Clarke, Andrew. "Rigidity of Rank-One Factors of Compact Symmetric Spaces." Annales de l’institut Fourier 61.2 (2011): 491-509. <http://eudml.org/doc/219853>.

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