Timeline for Is SO(2n+1)/U(n) a symmetric space?
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| Jun 20, 2016 at 21:02 | comment | added | Ninnat Dangniam | Sorry. I meant the looser sense in which both $SO(2n)/U(n)$ and $SO(2n+1)/U(n)$ are symmetric. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 21:01 | comment | added | Claudio Gorodski | Conjugation with a fixed complex structure $J$ on $\mathbb R^{2n}$ defines an involutive automorphism of $SO(2n)$ whose fixed point set is precisely $U(n)$. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 20:58 | comment | added | Ninnat Dangniam | I hope you don't mind if I have to take a step back. In which sense is $SO(2n)/U(n)$ symmetric then? | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 20:34 | history | edited | Claudio Gorodski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2016 at 20:28 | history | answered | Claudio Gorodski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |