On the ‘strange formula’ of Freudenthal and de Vries

DOI10.1017/S0305004100067736zbMATH Open0699.17011OpenAlexW2168713092MaRDI QIDQ3477019FDOQ3477019

Authors: Howard D. Fegan, Brian Steer 

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100067736

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zbMATH Keywords

compact semisimple Lie algebraFreudenthal's Strange Formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20)

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