Is there a name for this kind of space?

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Assume a Riemannian symmetric space $G/H$ where the decomposition of the Lie algebra of $G$ is $\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{h} \oplus \mathfrak{m}$. It is a known fact that if $\mathfrak{h}$ is the Lie algebra of $H$ then

$$ [\mathfrak{h},\mathfrak{h}]\subset \mathfrak{h}], \quad [\mathfrak{h}, \mathfrak{m}] \subset \mathfrak{m},\quad [\mathfrak{m},\mathfrak{m}] \subset \mathfrak{h}. $$ Is there a special name to call the spaces $G/H$ where the stronger condition

$$ [\mathfrak{m},\mathfrak{m}] = \mathfrak{h} $$ holds? Or a name for such decomposition?

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The decomposition with the stronger condition is called effective. It appears in connection with pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces, where one deals with a special case of the symmetric decomposition $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{h}\oplus \mathfrak{m}$, namely that the decomposition is effective, i.e., that it is minimal, which precisely means that $[\mathfrak{m},\mathfrak{m}] = \mathfrak{h}$, and that $\mathfrak{h}$ does not contain a non-trivial ideal of $\mathfrak{g}$. For details see here.