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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1567092
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The positive fundamental group of Sp(2) and Sp(4) (English)
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4 September 2002
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This paper proves that the positive fundamental group of the symplectic group \(\text{Sp}(2n)\) injects into the ordinary fundamental group if \(n\leq 2\). Here a path \(A(t)\) is positive if the derivative satisfies \(A'(t)= JP_tA(t)\), where \(P_t\) is a positive definite symmetric matrix and \(J\) is the standard complex structure.
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positive fundamental group
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symplectic group
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