Presentations of the first homotopy groups of the unitary groups

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 648-662

  Püttmann, Thomas ^a   Rigas, A ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Compact Lie groups; Equivariant maps; Homotopy groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042976382     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00014-003-0770-0     Document Type: Article

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