Decompositions of the space of loops on a Lie group

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(80)90032-4zbMath0434.58013OpenAlexW2081874267WikidataQ115364152 ScholiaQ115364152MaRDI QIDQ1139849

Andrew Pressley

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(80)90032-4

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionBirkhoff decompositionBruhat decompositioninfinite dimensional complex manifoldloop space of the unitary group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Manifolds of mappings (58D15) Stratified sets (58A35) Questions of holomorphy and infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B12)

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