Abstract
Symmetric spaces, in particular Lie groups, play a central role in mathematics as well as in physics. It is therefore not surprising that qualitative versions of these objects should be of interest too. In fact they are. In differential geometry the study of these objects is conducted in the guise of pinching theorems, in physics it is the study of soft group manifolds introduced in (7) for non-internal gauge theories.
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Ruh, E.A. (1983). Almost Symmetric Spaces. In: Cahen, M., De Wilde, M., Lemaire, L., Vanhecke, L. (eds) Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics. Mathematical Physics Studies, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7022-9_15
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