Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Symmetric variety

Mathematical concept From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

In algebraic geometry, a symmetric variety is an algebraic analogue of a symmetric space in differential geometry, given by a quotient G/H of a reductive algebraic group G by the subgroup H fixed by some involution of G.

Remove ads

See also

References

  • Ash, A.; Mumford, David; Rapoport, M.; Tai, Y. (1975), Smooth compactification of locally symmetric varieties (PDF), Brookline, Mass.: Math. Sci. Press, ISBN 978-0-521-73955-9, MR 0457437


Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads