2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/222788We consider the decomposition of a compact-type symmetric space into a product of factors and show that the rank-one factors, when considered as totally geodesic submanifolds of the space, are isolated from inequivalent minimal submanifolds.Differential Geometry53C35, 53C40, 53C42text