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Geodesics in Weakly Symmetric Spaces

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We prove that any maximal geodesic in a weakly symmetric space is an orbit of a one-parameter group of isometries of that space.

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Berndt, J., Kowalski, O. & Vanhecke, L. Geodesics in Weakly Symmetric Spaces. Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 15, 153–156 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006565909527

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