Abstract simplicity of locally compact Kac-Moody groups

Compositio Mathematica

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 713-728

  Marquis, Timothée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abstract simplicity; Complete Kac Moody groups; Contraction groups; Root groups; Topological Kac Moody groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900421395     PISSN: 0010437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1112/S0010437X13007598     Document Type: Article

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