On the ‘strange formula’ of Freudenthal and de Vries

DOI10.1017/S0305004100067736MaRDI QIDQ3477019zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

compact semisimple Lie algebraFreudenthal's Strange Formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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