On spaces of commuting elements in Lie groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004116000311MaRDI QIDQ5360413zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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)

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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