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A symmetric space is a connected Riemannian manifold in which at every point there exists a global self-isometry whose differential at the given point is minus identity.

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Applications of Jordan algebras

They turn up quite often in the study of (exceptional) linear algebraic groups. The most famous instance of this is the fact that algebraic groups of type $F_4$ are precisely the automorphism groups o …
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