Classifying spaces and p-local irreducibility (Q1099439)
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Classifying spaces and p-local irreducibility (English)
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1987
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The author establishes that at any prime p, the classifying space of a compact, connected, simple Lie group has no nontrivial retracts. The result follows from the corresponding algebraic result in K-theory with coefficients in the p-adic integers as a \(\lambda\)-ring. It cannot be established using singular cohomology over the Steenrod algebra alone.
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classifying space of a compact connected simple Lie group
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K-theory with coefficients in the p-adic integers
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\(\lambda \)-ring
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