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The first author acknowledges partial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
The second author acknowledges partial support from the National Science Foundation.
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Wang, M., Ziller, W. On isotropy irreducible Riemannian manifolds. Acta Math 166, 223–261 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02398887
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