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Introduction to Symmetric Spaces and Their Compactifications

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109

    Lizhen Ji

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  1. Laboratoire de Mathématiques (MAPMO), Université d’Orléans, F-45067, Orléans Cedex 2, France

    Jean-Philippe Anker

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Bent Orsted

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Ji, L. (2005). Introduction to Symmetric Spaces and Their Compactifications. In: Anker, JP., Orsted, B. (eds) Lie Theory. Progress in Mathematics, vol 229. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4430-X_1

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