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Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation, NSF GP-2600.
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Helgason, S. Totally geodesic spheres in compact symmetric spaces. Math. Ann. 165, 309–317 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01344015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01344015