Garland, Howard ; Raghunathan, M. S. (1975) A Bruhat decomposition for the loop space of a compact group: a new approach to results of Bott PNAS, 72 (12). pp. 4716-4717. ISSN 0027-8424
Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://www.pnas.org/content/72/12/4716.short
Abstract
We give a new proof of Bott's result, that the loop space of a compact, simply connected, simple Lie group has a cellular decomposition of a certain type. In particular, one obtains the Poincaré polynomial for the loop space and Bott periodicity for the unitary group.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Source: | Copyright of this article belongs to National Academy of Sciences. |
| Keywords: | Bott Periodicity; Loop Spaces; Bruhat Cells; Lie Groups; Cohomology |
| ID Code: | 39062 |
| Deposited On: | 06 May 2011 11:20 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2011 11:22 |
Repository Staff Only: item control page
