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Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces

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We extend Ferus’ characterization of extrinsic symmetric spaces to ambient spaces with indefinite inner products.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Kunsan National University, 573-701, Kunsan, Republic of Korea

    Jong Ryul Kim

  2. Institut für Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

    J. -H. Eschenburg

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J. R. Kim would like to thank DFG for financial support in the framework of the Graduiertenkolleg “Nichtlineare Probleme in Analysis, Geometrie und Physik”.

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Kim, J.R., Eschenburg, J.H. Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces. manuscripta math. 135, 203–214 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-011-0441-1

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