Cartan models and cellular decompositions of symmetric Riemannian spaces (Q2378300): Difference between revisions

The authors study some cellular decompositions of symmetric Riemannian spaces by making use of Cartan models and the cellular decompositions of the classical Lie groups \(O(n),\;U(n),\;Sp(n),\) \(SO(n),\) and \(SU(n)\). They obtain the characteristic maps of the cells and prove that one obtains a cellular decomposition of the considered symmetric space. So, the authors obtain cellular decompositions for the following Riemannian symmetric spaces: \(Sp(n)/U(n)\), \(U(n)/O(n),\) \(U(2n)/Sp(n)\), \(O(2n)/U(n)\), \(SU(n)/SO(n)\), \( SU(2n)/Sp(n)\), \(SO(2n)/U(n)\). Remark the new cellular decomposition for the spaces of types AI and AII.