Point Reflections in Mathematics
- Point reflection across the center of a sphere yields the antipodal map.
- A symmetric space is a Riemannian manifold with an isometric reflection across each point. Symmetric spaces play an important role in the study of Lie groups and Riemannian geometry.
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