“…Symmetric spaces play an important role in many areas of mathematics and physics, but probably best known are the representations associated with these symmetric spaces which have been studied by many prominent mathematicians starting with a study of compact groups and their representations by Cartan [Car29], to a study of Riemannian symmetric spaces and real (and padic) groups by Harish Chandra [HC84] to a more recent study of the non Riemannian symmetric spaces (see for example [Far79,FJ80,ŌS80,vdBS97b,vdBS97a]) leading to a Plancherel formula in 1996 by Delorme [Del98]. Once this Plancherel formula was obtained the attention shifted to p-adic symmetric spaces (see for example [DH14,CD14,Del13,HH02,HH05]). In the late 1980's generalizations of these reductive symmetric spaces to other base fields started to play a role in other areas, like in the study of arithmetic subgroups (see [TW89]), the study of character sheaves (see for example [Lus90,Gro92]), geometry (see [DCP83,DCP85] and [Abe88]), singularity theory (see [LV83] and [HS90]), and the study of Harish Chandra modules (see [BB81] and [Vog83,Vog82]).…”