Maximal antipodal sets in irreducible compact symmetric spaces (Q6097867)

Using the Cartan quadratic morphism, the author shows a correspondence between maximal antipodal sets and certain elementary abelian 2-subgroups. A compact symmetric space is irreducible if it is not isogenous to the product of two positive-dimensional compact symmetric spaces. With an explicit list of irreducible compact symmetric spaces, an explicit classification of maximal antipodal sets is given in most of them using the correspondence mentioned before. The only cases not been treated are spin groups and half spin groups, and some quotient symmetric spaces of them.