401-3226-00L Symmetric Spaces
| Semester | Spring Semester 2021 |
| Lecturers | A. Iozzi |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Abstract | * 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 |