Almost commuting elements in compact Lie groups

DOI10.1090/MEMO/0747zbMATH Open0993.22002arXivmath/9907007OpenAlexW2050248814MaRDI QIDQ4534864FDOQ4534864

Authors: John W. Morgan, Robert Friedman, Armand Borel 

Publication date: 18 June 2002

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe the components of the moduli space of conjugacy classes of commuting pairs and triples of elements in a compact Lie group. This description is in terms of the extended Dynkin diagram of the simply connected cover, together with the coroot integers and the action of the fundamental group. In the case of three commuting elements, we compute Chern-Simons invariants associated to the corresponding flat bundles over the three-torus, and verify a conjecture of Witten which reveals a surprising symmetry involving the Chern-Simons invariants and the dimensions of the components of the moduli space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907007

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zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classessemisimple Lie groupcompact connected Lie groupChern-Simons invariantsextended Dynkin diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact groups (22C05) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20) Automorphisms, derivations, other operators for Lie algebras and super algebras (17B40) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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