Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 ; The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics, 231 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174
Abstract:
In this paper we define a distinguished boundary for the complex crowns of non-compact Riemannian symmetric spaces . The basic result is that affine symmetric spaces of can appear as a component of this boundary if and only if they are non-compactly causal symmetric spaces.