Nilpotent n-tuples in SU(2)

DOI10.1017/S0013091520000309zbMATH Open1468.22022arXiv1611.05937OpenAlexW3089990020MaRDI QIDQ5145114FDOQ5145114

Omar Antolín Camarena, Bernardo Villarreal

Publication date: 20 January 2021

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

Abstract: We describe the connected components of the space $extHom(Gamma,SU(2))$ of homomorphisms for a discrete nilpotent group $Gamma$. The connected components arising from homomorphisms with non-abelian image turn out to be homeomorphic to $mathbb{RP}^3$. We give explicit calculations when $Gamma$ is a finitely generated free nilpotent group. In the second part of the paper we study the filtration $B_{extcom}SU(2)=B(2,SU(2))subsetcdotssubsetB(q,SU(2))subsetcdots$ of the classifying space $BSU(2)$ (introduced by Adem, Cohen and Torres-Giese), showing that for every $qgeq2$, the inclusions induce a homology isomorphism with coefficients over a ring in which 2 is invertible. Most of the computations are done for $SO(3)$ and $U(2)$ as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05937

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zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacesnilpotent groupsspaces of representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Lie groups (22E99)

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