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Riemannian isometry groups containing transitive reductive subgroups

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This work constitutes the author's Ph.D. thesis at Washington University under the direction of Edward N. Wilson

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Gordon, C. Riemannian isometry groups containing transitive reductive subgroups. Math. Ann. 248, 185–192 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01421956

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