The 2-ranks of connected compact Lie groups

DOI10.11650/TJM.17.2013.2606MaRDI QIDQ390052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bang-Yen Chen

Publication date 22 January 2014

Published in Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1932, http://journal.taiwanmathsoc.org.tw/index.php/TJM/article/view/2606

zbMATH Keywords

compact Lie group2-rank\((M_{+}2-number2-subgroupantipodal setM_{-})\)-method.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67)

Abstract: The 2-rank of a compact Lie group $G$ is the maximal possible rank of the elementary 2-subgroup ${mathbbZ}_{2}imes\mathrm{...}{mathbbZ}_2$ of $G$. The study of 2-ranks (and $p$-rank for any prime $p$) of compact Lie groups was initiated in 1953 by A. Borel and J.-P. Serre. Since then the 2-ranks of compact Lie groups have been investigated by many mathematician. The 2-ranks of compact Lie groups relate closely with several important areas in mathematics. In this article, we survey important results concerning 2-ranks of compact Lie groups. In particular, we present the complete determination of 2-ranks of compact connected simple Lie groups $G$ via the 2-numbers introduced by B. Y. Chen and T. Nagano in [Un invariant g'em'etrique riemannien, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 295 (1982), 389--391] and [A Riemannian geometric invariant and its applications to a problem of Borel and Serre, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 308 (1988), 273--297].

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