Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:40:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Douglas C. Ravenel" <drav@math.rochester.edu>
Subject: Question about Grassmannians

Question:

Does anyone know of a convenient and computationally explicit way
to define a metric on a real Grassmannian?

Doug Ravenel


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