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DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND SYMMETRIC SPACES

SIGURDUR HELGASON

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2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 22E15, 53C35, 22E46,22F30, 43A85, 43A90, 53C20, 53C30.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Helgason, Sigurdur, 1927–Differential geometry and symmetric spaces / Sigurdur Helgason.

p. cm.Originally published: New York : Academic Press, 1962.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.ISBN 0-8218-2735-9 (alk. paper)1. Geometry, Differential. 2. Symmetric spaces. I. Title.

QA641.H46 2000516.3′6—dc21 00-048511

Copyright c© 1962 held by the American Mathematical Society.Reprinted with corrections by the American Mathematical Society, 2001

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