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A flow on a homogeneous space need not come from the action of a one-parameter subgroup of the ambient transitive group. We exhibit an inductive method for determining when this is the case.
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Brezin, J., Ellis, R. & Shapiro, L. RecognizingG-induced flows. Israel J. Math. 17, 56–65 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02756825
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02756825