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Relation between two Harish-Chandra homomorphisms

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a Lie algebra admitting a triangular decomposition $\frak g = N^-\oplus h\oplus N^+$ and $\gamma$ the classic Harish-Chandra isomorphism defined on the center $\frak Z$ of the ...
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A question about Araki's 1962 paper on classification of irreducible symmetric spaces

I am looking at Sôhô Araki's 1962 paper for the classification of real semisimple lie algebras. Here's the link to the paper: On root systems and an infinitesimal classification of irreducible ...
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Conjugacy classes of Cartan subspaces in parahermitian symmetric spaces

Are there any good tables of the numbers of conjugacy classes of Cartan subspaces in pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces? Or a good method to count them? In particular, I am interested in the ...
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Explicit formula for the Levi-Civita connection on a non-compact Riemannian symmetric space

Let $G/K$ be a non-compact Riemannian symmetric space, endowed with the Riemannian metric coming from the Killing form on the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ of the semi-simple Lie group $G$. Here $K$ is ...
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Weyl group of a symmetric space

Let $G/K$ be a symmetric space of a non-compact type, i.e. $G$ is a semi-simple connected Lie group, and $K$ is its maximal compact subgroup. Helgason in his book "Differential geometry and symmetric ...
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Harish-Chandra isomorphism for compact symmetric spaces

I would be interested to have an explicit description of the algebra of invariant differential operators on functions on a compact symmetric space $G/K$. A reference would be especially useful. Below ...
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