* 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 * Hints of the geometry at infinity of SL(n,R)/SO(n).
Objective
Learn the basics of symmetric spaces
Performance assessment
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