Only for ETH D-MATH doctoral students and for doctoral students from the Institute of Mathematics at UZH. The latter need to send an email to Jessica Bolsinger (info@zgsm.ch) with the course number. The email should have the subject „Graduate course registration (ETH)“.
* Generalities on symmetric spaces: locally and globally symmetric spaces, groups of isometries, examples * Symmetric spaces of non-compact type: flats and rank, roots and root spaces * Iwasawa decomposition, Weyl group, Cartan decomposition * Geometry at infinity
Learning objective
Learn the basics of symmetric spaces
Performance assessment
Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)
Performance assessment as a semester course