On formality of generalised symmetric spaces
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generalisedharmonicspacessymmetricadmitcompactflagformal
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We prove that all generalised symmetric spaces of compact simple Lie groups are formal in the sense of Sullivan. Nevertheless, many of them, including all the non-symmetric flag manifolds, do not admit Riemannian metrics for which all products of harmonic forms are harmonic.
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