On spaces of commuting elements in Lie groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004116000311zbMATH Open1371.55012arXiv1402.6309WikidataQ115336000 ScholiaQ115336000MaRDI QIDQ5360413FDOQ5360413

Authors: Mentor Stafa, F. R. Cohen 

Publication date: 28 September 2017

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

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a method to stabilize certain spaces of homomorphisms from finitely generated free abelian groups to a Lie group $G$, namely $Hom(mathbb{Z}^n,G)$. We show that this stabilized space of homomorphisms decomposes after suspending once with summands which can be reassembled, in a sense to be made precise below, into the individual spaces $Hom(mathbb{Z}^n,G)$ after suspending once. To prove this decomposition, a stable decomposition of an equivariant function space is also developed. One main result is that the topological space of all commuting elements in a compact Lie group is homotopy equivalent to an equivariant function space after inverting the order of the Weyl group. In addition, the homology of the stabilized space admits a very simple description in terms of the tensor algebra generated by the reduced homology of a maximal torus in favorable cases. The stabilized space also allows the description of the additive reduced homology of the individual spaces $Hom(mathbb{Z}^n,G)$, with the order of the Weyl group inverted.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6309

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35)

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