Cartan models and cellular decompositions of symmetric Riemannian spaces (Q2378300)

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.