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This is a study of geodesic symmetries of a Riemannian manifold with respect to a submanifold. We analyze the significance of the property to be volume-preserving, isometric or preserving the mean curvature of the tubular neighborhoods.
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Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn.
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Tondeur, P., Vanhecke, L. Reflections in submanifolds. Geom Dedicata 28, 77–85 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147801
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