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An Application of Morse Theory to Certain Symmetric Spaces1


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In [3], T. T. Frankel has applied Morse theory to the classical groups (i.e., SO(n), U(n); Sp(n)) and related the Poincare polynomials of these groups to those of the Grassmannians (i.e., real Gn, k, complex Wn, k, quaternionic Qn,k).
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S. Ramanujam
Brown University, Providence, R.I., United States

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In [3], T. T. Frankel has applied Morse theory to the classical groups (i.e., SO(n), U(n); Sp(n)) and related the Poincare polynomials of these groups to those of the Grassmannians (i.e., real Gn, k, complex Wn, k, quaternionic Qn,k).