Explicit construction of nontrivial elements for homotopy groups of classical Lie groups

DOI10.1063/1.529018MaRDI QIDQ3488342zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Albert T. Lundell, Yasunari Tosa

Publication date 1990

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.529018

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebrasgeneratorshomotopy groupsunitary, orthogonal, and symplectic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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• General indices of simple Lie algebras and symmetrized product representations
• Global anomalies and algebraic topology
• Some remarks on the paper of Callias

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