Topology Seminar

Elements of finite order in Lie groups and finite H-spaces

John Harper, University of Rochester

Friday, February 24th, 2017
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hylan 1106A

This is a report on joint work with Tamar Friedmann. Let p be prime and F a cyclic group of order p. We look at conjugacy classes of F in SU(n) and ask if there are new finite H-spaces among the coset spaces SU(n)/F. We find that there are none for n=p or less, but there is a new example of the form SU(4)/F where F is of order 3. Our paper may be found on Arxiv 1612.03837.

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