A unified approach to compact symmetric spaces of rank one
Volume 118 / 2010
Colloquium Mathematicum 118 (2010), 43-87
MSC: 53A35, 51A05, 51A25.
DOI: 10.4064/cm118-1-3
Abstract
A relatively simple algebraic framework is given, in which all the compact symmetric spaces can be described and handled without distinguishing cases. We also give some applications and further results.