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The coset space of Spin(7) by the exceptional Lie group G₂ is homeomorphic to the 7-sphere:

Spin(7)/G 2≃S 7. Spin(7)/G_2 \;\simeq\; S^7 \,.

References

  • Alfred Gray, Paul S. Green, p. 2 of Sphere transitive structures and the triality automorphism, Pacific J. Math. Volume 34, Number 1 (1970), 83-96 (euclid:1102976640)

  • Veeravalli Varadarajan, Theorem 3 in Spin(7)-subgroups of SO(8) and Spin(8), Expositiones Mathematicae, 19 (2001): 163-177 (pdf)

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