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There are 4 different meanings of Parabolic geometry.

Parabolic geometry Disambiguation
Mathematics
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In mathematics, the world parabolic geometry is used in the following meanings:
Euclidean geometry
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Euclidean geometry
More generally, a manifold with a connection having zero scalar curvature (the word elliptic would indicate positive scalar curvature and the word hyperbolic indicates negative scalar curvature)
Cartan geometry of parabolic type. This is a Cartan geometry modeled on the pair (G,P) where G is a semisimple Lie group and P a parabolic subgroup. Surprisingly, the above mentioned Euclidean geometry is not among these geometries, so this may cause confusion.



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